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Obliterating the numbers on guns takes quite a while, even with a fully equipped machine shop.

He didn’t just do that on the spur of the moment. Someone else on the thread has speculated that he may have had an assassination fantasy or plan wherein he would kill a specific someone, drop the gun (which he thought would be untraceable), and then leave without a trace. If so, apparently his plans changed.

I’m only about 500 posts behind on this thread, so forgive me if these have been covered before. But two things have been on my mind:

1. At least a couple of reports had the killer shooting from waist-high. That’s a very unusual way of shooting, especially if you’re trying for accuracy. Yet as has already been pointed out, his killed/wounded ratio was very high. We don’t yet know if that means he was accurate, or if he just pumped many rounds into each victim. But shooting from waist-high is strange.

2. Any word on his parents? When Oregon had their high school shooting, the shooter (Kip Kinkle) killed his parents and booby-trapped his/their house before going to school and killing kids. Cho’s whereabouts for the 2 hours between shootings are still a mystery... I wonder if his parents are alive. I saw a report today that said neighbors hadn’t seen them since Monday, but not sure if that was before or after the shootings. But we would have heard by now if the parents had been killed. I just wonder if there is another crime scene somewhere that occurred in the 2 hours between shootings.

Obliterating the numbers on guns takes quite a while, even with a fully equipped machine shop.

All Glocks and the Walther P99 and P22 have plastic *polymer* frames. Accordingly, the serial number is stamped into a metal tag that's then embedded into the frame casting, in addition to the obvious numbers on the slide and barrel, which can be changed between guns.

It takes about 5 minutes to *sanitize* the Glock frame's nmumber tag, given a moto-tool or die grinder with a carbide cutter or dental burr, easily available at the nearest Home Depot or Lowes, and probably easily available around a school with engineering program students.

I have not been tasked to remove numbers from one of the newish Walthers. But I don't think it'd be much of a challenge.