That was my first thought.
I don’t need a permit in Indiana to buy a gun, just to carry it legally.
As far as I know NYC and MA are the only places you need a permit to simply buy a gun. Even in CA you don’t need a permit, just pass the background check and wait 10 days(which is bad enough). IMO, this BS statement was put into the article because the liberal MSM was pissed that a gun wasn’t used to kill these three people(I am counting the perp, although I didn’t see where he actually died from his self inflicted wounds) so they threw in the “waiting for a permit” statement so they could condemn guns anyway.