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Massacre Gun: $571 for 9 mm Glock and 50 Bullets at Roanoke Store
ABC News ^ | 4/17/07

Posted on 04/17/2007 12:33:08 PM PDT by areafiftyone

Seung-Hui Cho bought his first gun, a 9mm handgun, on March 13 at a Roanoke, Va. gun store, the owner tells ABC News.

John Markell, the owner of Roanoke Firearms, said today that he had been interviewed by three agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms about Cho's purchase of a Glock 9 mm handgun.

"I feel terrible about this," Markell told ABC News at his store today, which is part gun shop, part pawn shop on the outskirts of Roanoke.

Markell said Cho's gun and a box of 50 bullets cost $571. He said Cho paid by check and left the store with the gun.

Markell said Cho was "a clean-cut college kid," and the transaction was entirely legal under Virginia law. "He was as cordial as could be, and there was nothing unusual in his manner that suggested any thing wrong," Markell said.

Markell said he was not present when Cho bought the gun, but that he had produced a state driver's license and an immigration card.

Law enforcement officials tell ABC News Cho bought his second weapon, a .22 caliber handgun, also in Virginia, within the last week.

"This was no spur of the moment crime. He's been thinking about this since at least the time he bought the first gun," said former FBI agent Brad Garrett, an ABC News consultant.

Under Virginia law, state residents can only buy one handgun in any 30-day period, suggesting Cho bought his second weapon after April 13 or sometime over the weekend.

"He clearly spent some time figuring out how he was going to take care of business once classes began on Monday morning," said Garrett.

The date of the first gun purchase will likely serve as the time of "some triggering mechanism that was very important" to Cho said Garrett, an expert on profiling murderers.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Virginia
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1 posted on 04/17/2007 12:33:09 PM PDT by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

The MSM off and running........typically


2 posted on 04/17/2007 12:35:29 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: areafiftyone
Markell said Cho was "a clean-cut college kid," and the transaction was entirely legal under Virginia law. "He was as cordial as could be, and there was nothing unusual in his manner that suggested any thing wrong," Markell said. Markell said he was not present when Cho bought the gun, but that he had produced a state driver's license and an immigration card.

He was or wasn't present?

3 posted on 04/17/2007 12:35:53 PM PDT by showme_the_Glory (No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
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To: areafiftyone

That was about what McVeigh spent...but he stole some stuff also.


4 posted on 04/17/2007 12:36:14 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: Doogle

Yeah , ABC really seems to be leading the charge this time around .


5 posted on 04/17/2007 12:36:31 PM PDT by Neu Pragmatist (Is Romney the next Reagan ? ....Perhaps ,... We shall see ...)
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To: areafiftyone
Clueless Drive by/MSM idiots. They know nothing about guns and nothing about human nature. Yet they present themselvces as an authority on both!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

6 posted on 04/17/2007 12:36:44 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: areafiftyone

OK, so the gun was purchased legally over a month ago.

First question - what gun control law would have kept this guy from getting it without keeping someone with no criminal intent from getting it?

Second question - why did the perp file off the serials? You know the gun shop didn’t sell it that way!


7 posted on 04/17/2007 12:36:53 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: areafiftyone

Will we hear of how, from whom, and for how much someone bought a vehicle later used in a multiple-fatality car wreck? (And if not, why not?)


8 posted on 04/17/2007 12:37:07 PM PDT by coloradan (Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
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To: showme_the_Glory
Markell said he was not present when Cho bought the gun, but that he had produced a state driver's license and an immigration card.

I thought you had to be a Citizen to purchase a firearm? Isn't that a Federal Law?

9 posted on 04/17/2007 12:37:48 PM PDT by chaos_5
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why did the perp file off the serials?

Because he was a kook.

10 posted on 04/17/2007 12:38:40 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: chaos_5

Seriously, why should an immigrant be prevented from purchasing and owning (and carrying) the means to protect themselves?


11 posted on 04/17/2007 12:38:45 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: areafiftyone

I want to know where Mohammed Atta bought his Koran. I want to know where Andrea Yates bought the bathtub she drowned her kids in. Where did Cary Stayner buy the knife he murdered four women with?


12 posted on 04/17/2007 12:38:57 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: areafiftyone
Did anyone see a Glock 9mm running around the Campus shooting people at random? Kind of like the SUV that goes berserk and kills the driver inside!
13 posted on 04/17/2007 12:39:00 PM PDT by paratrooper82 (82 Airborne 1/508th BN "fury from the sky")
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To: showme_the_Glory

This guy posts to a blog which was linked last night on Free Republic. I was a little skepitical then but he said CHO bought a Glock 9mm and a Walther p22, that the receipt for the glock was found on him, and that he had a video camera system and had burned a copy of the pic of Cho buying the weapon and given it to ATF agents.


14 posted on 04/17/2007 12:39:15 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: MrB
No laws were broken. The future killer even complied with Virginia's stupid one gun a month buy law! I would like liberals to explain to me how their gun control laws would have stopped him. They didn't!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

15 posted on 04/17/2007 12:40:01 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: chaos_5

No, Resident Aliens can buy guns. There is an option for checking that on the federal form. You then have to provide your card information.


16 posted on 04/17/2007 12:40:12 PM PDT by NorthFlaRebel
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To: Neu Pragmatist

All this info was posted on Free Rep last night via a link to ‘Black Rifles blog’ I think it was called that. If a reported had been monitoring FR last night about 8 pm, he could have scooped everone with the name of the shooter which the store owner said was CHO


17 posted on 04/17/2007 12:40:49 PM PDT by milwguy
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To: NorthFlaRebel

OK, thanks. I stand corrected. =o)


18 posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:17 PM PDT by chaos_5
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To: areafiftyone

Well, I first heard the information about the Roanoke store and the name Cho here on Free Republic yesterday (via black-rifles.com), though it hadn’t been confirmed.


19 posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:28 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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To: dead

I want to congratulate all the Freepers out there. This entire story was out here on Free Republic last night on one of the story threads. Even the name of the shooter was on Free Republic last night, before he was officially identified. Now ABC is confirming this story about him buying the weapons and ammunition.

Free Republic can be a site with breaking news. Perhaps the MSM wanted to hold back this aspect of the story for some reason. And the delay in official identification suggests something too about the MSM and the officials in charge.


20 posted on 04/17/2007 12:41:37 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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