Posted on 07/18/2022 4:39:32 AM PDT by DFG
A damning Texas probe into the Uvalde school massacre reveals in excruciating detail how easily and quickly the killer amassed his ammo and weapons.
Fiend Salvador Ramos had tried to convince kin to buy him weapons before he legally turned 18 on May 16, to no avail.
So he busied himself purchasing firearms accessories about three months before — “including 60 30-round magazines, a holographic weapon sight, and a Hellfire Gen 2 snap-on trigger system” — and on his 18th birthday, began stockpiling the other crucial elements to his slaughter, the report found.
That day — a week before he fatally gunned down 19 fourth-graders and two teachers at his old elementary school — “an online retailer shipped 1,740 rounds of 5.56mm 75-grain boat tail hollow point [bullets] to his doorstep, at a cost of $1,761.50,’’ the report said.
Ramos also “ordered a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 (an AR-15-style rifle) for shipment to a gun store in Uvalde, at a cost of $2,054.28 (including tax and transfer fee),’’ the probe found.
The next day, “he bought a Smith and Wesson M&P15 (also an AR-15-style rifle) at the same store in Uvalde, at a cost of $1,081.42.’’
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The gun store should have had a “red flag” moment on that one, really, especially from his appearance.
I think the only red flat that might have been generated....is a drug-test as you filled out the forms. This kid would have failed miserably.
Do we know what prescription psychotropic drugs he was taking?
$4,897.20 in purchases of guns and ammo and still no mention of where he got such a sum of money.
$4,897.20 in purchases of guns and ammo and still no mention of where he got such a sum of money.
Its amazing that people still judge based on appearance.
He worked at Wendy’s and went to school only part time. This is common in your last year of high school nearly every one has a half day program where you work nearly full time while finishing out school. Post pandemic even Wendy’s is paying $15 hr or more the local Chic fil A is paying nearly $20 an hour to attract staff. It is also well documented that he talked about saving up for guns so much it creeped his co workers out at Wendy’s. He said to them as soon as he had the money for guns he was quiting and that’s exactly what he did. 30 seconds with Google will give you a dozen news hits for this info. He lived with his grandmother and had zero bills remember he shot his grandmother o. The face , and stole her truck when she asked him to pay for his cellphone bill.
That’s a fairly large sum of money for an 18 year working a part time job at Wendy’s to come up with. Then it’s the logistics of getting the weapons set up with no one noticing????
It’s called situational awareness.
If he only worked 20n hrs a week at $15.00/hr
For a year
And had no expenses
Do the math
The gun store just handled the transfers with little sales interactions. If they had a really bad impression they could have said no, but obviously didn’t happen.
What? $15hr @ 30hr per week is $450 a week. That’s well over $9000 in 5 month’s time which is what he had before he turned 18. In Texas you are an adult at 17 eligible for full time employment regardless of if you are still in high school. He worked at Wendy’s for at least 6 months that’s $10000+ in earned money. Since he didn’t pay his living expenses he pocketed all that money. Taxes on it would be minimal he would have gotten EITC and more money back from the Fed’s then be paid in income taxes. Knowing that he could have told Wendy’s to not withhold at the full rate he could claim himself even if it was fraud what would it have mattered. So yeah with a fast food job and no living expenses one could easily get $6000 in saving with a little discipline in savings. Clearly he was saving money he freely told his co-workers the only reason he was working was to buy guns.
In Texas buying two guns in a couple of weeks is nothing. I’ve bought a dozen or more at a time only pistols are reported in multiple purchases. The local CNC gun shop here will sell you a dozen AR lowers fully kitted minus the stock but with buffer assembly for $145 each no one blinks this is Texas and not everyone is a poor.
Mentally deranged people are often very charming and easy to get along with. One of my former bosses was one of those guys. Nobody at work would/could find anything “bad” to say about him. One day he didn’t show up to work; he was in jail for beating his wife and kid.
How do you know, for a fact, he had no expenses?
Sounds like druggie mom and grandma both had lots of issues, and, who knows how much of his money had to go towards buying groceries, paying utilities, gas, clothing, bills, eyc?
And, how do we know he was consistently working, every week?
and where did he get the money from?
and where did he get the money from?
A neck tat requires extra scrutiny in my book and the kid had/has the dead eyes so common in these murderers. Talked to many a cop and corrections officers over the years, they all say that the dead eyes puts them on heightened alert. Fortunately looks do reveal something about the character of a person.
So under what law would you apply extra scrutiny? Are you advocating for a Red Flag law which Texas currently doesn’t have? He had zero in his Federal background check that would have been flagged he passed his Fed check. Under current Texas law you would have to get a judge to involuntarily commit the person for a 72 hour eval and then if found to be a danger to themselves or other’s that same judge must issue an order for commitment and also declare the person mentally unfit. This is how you get a hit in the Fed database. If Texas had a Red Flag law then a family member could have went to the police and then they would have to look at his social media and do a local investigation then again a judge must issue the red flag. These kinds of first offenders are going to be nearly impossible to stop they don’t have the criminal nor mental health care back grounds to disqualify them without additional laws being passed. Then those laws will be abused by X wives and girlfriends for sure.
I've read all that, but there's still been little information about how he paid for the guns and ammo he bought in person; cash or credit card, and how he paid for the mail order items. In a case like this with a just turned 18 year-old, it'd be good to have something more than a lot of generalities.
Did have a bank account? A credit card? Did he use cash and money orders?
Not very thorough reporting on such a huge case as this.
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