At gun shop, no hint of what ‘polite’ customer would do weeks later at Columbia mall

Washington Post ^ | January 27, 2014 | Paul Duggan, Peter Hermann and Matt Zapotosky

[Second Amendment First]

Darion Aguilar, neatly clad in jeans and a dress shirt, strolled into a Rockville gun store Dec. 10 with a wad of cash and lots of questions. He wanted a weapon for home defense, he told the owners, who remember him as upbeat and courteous. He didn’t know much about firearms and asked for their help in picking one out.

“His whole demeanor was, he smiled, he was polite, he wasn’t aggressive,” said Cory Brown, a proprietor of United Gun Shop. Aguilar, then 18, told Brown and co-owner Dan Millen that he had been researching Mossberg shotguns. Could they show him a Mossberg?

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So they got out a basic 500 model — “an entry-level” gun, Brown said — a pump-action 12-gauge that is easy for a novice to fire accurately in close quarters.

[Tijeras_Slim]

There’s been a number of them that I recall. Not familiar with United, or course I haven’t live there in over 20 years.

[William Tell]

Still Thinking said: "I’m saying the FFL could purchase them from gun owners and then sell them as legally required the next time someone bought a gun ..."

I understood you.

The dealer is not permitted to release a handgun unless he is also including a newly manufactured lock. He is not permitted to purchase a "used" lock from a gun owner and satisfy the requirement with such lock.

This is why many gun owners in Kalifornia also own a bag of worthless locks.

Long guns do not have to include a lock if the purchaser signs an affidavit which attests to ownership of a Kalifornia approved gun safe. I don't believe that the affidavit is effective for hangun sales.

[Bigg Red]

The girl was stupid to go out with him....

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Where did you see that the girl had gone out with him?

[Sheapdog]

I read an article in Guardian I think that told a narrative that now seems to be false and was just an initial story European papers went with. The angle was a love tryst. It seems the two white people - girl and guy did not associate outside of work and the guy had a girlfriend. Obviously the key to the story lies in the shooters diary or journal which will probably never see the light of day as it will surely not fit the agenda of today’s commie propaganda.

[Still Thinking]

Ah. The tyrants must have foreseen that particular workaround and made sure they got there first.

[Still Thinking]

Ah. The tyrants must have foreseen that particular workaround and made sure they got there first.