Posted on 04/22/2007 10:41:12 AM PDT by MindBender26
April 21, 2007 — In the months before his shooting spree at Virginia Tech, Seung-Hui Cho purchased two ammunition clips through the online auction site eBay, ABCNews has learned.
An eBay spokesman confirmed the sale to the Associated Press late today after separate investigations by ABCNews and the Associated Press uncovered the existence of Cho's auction account.
"It's apparent that he purchased the empty magazine clips," eBay spokesman Hani Durzy told the AP. "They're similar to what could be purchased in any sporting goods store around the country."
Cho apparently purchased a two-pack of 10-round ammunition clips for a Walther P22 on March 22, 2007, less than a month before killing 32 people and himself at Virginia Tech. The ammunition was purchased on eBay from Elk Ridge Shooting Supplies. Police have said Cho used a Walther P22 during his bloody rampage Monday.
In addition to purchasing ammunition online, Cho appears to have sold used copies of books filled with violent themes and overtones on an eBay affiliated Web site called half.com.
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Thank you.
Glocks do not feed off of “clips”, they feed off of magazines.
And he had more than four magazines, or so the reports say. They also mention that he was using the 30 or 33 round magazines that are available for purchase.
I haven’t found a report that says he definitely had used a high capacity clip, do you have a link?
Yep, new and used.
Since he used Glocks, getting a high-capacity “clip” would be impossible.
Getting a high capacity magazine would not.
Has the Anything But Credible network ever reported any story accurately?
In the past, I've tried explaining to "journalists" why a semi-automatic-only rifle isn't an "assault rifle".
Talk about an exercise in futility.
They don't know anything about firearms, and aren't the least bit interested in learning.
However, It is not legal to ship firearms and ammo in the same package.
AND, it is not legal to ship firearms except from one FFL license holder to another FFL license holder.
I remember this from my younger days when I worked at UPS. Boxes fall apart sometimes...it couldn’t be helped. When a firearm was discovered(it happened more often than you would expect), it had to be turned over to management. Then they contacted the ATF or the FBI, I forget which. IF there were any violation, they sent an undercover agent to UPS and dressed him up in UPS uniform and sent him to the address in a UPS truck. Whoever signed for the package was arrested.
G18 mags are either 31 or 33 rounds depending on whether it has a +2 magazine extension or not. It’s possible to load 34 rounds maximum into the pistol, but the magazine will not hold that many.
EBay is meticulous about prohibiting auctions of ammunition. Does anybody have the link to the “inert brass” auction that was a thread on FR?
A guy that professed to be a gun control advocate told me that he didn’t think this was the proper case to be used to increase gun restrictions. His reasoning was that cho was so deranged that he simply would have built a bomb if there were no guns available to him. So he reasons that cho’s accessibility to handguns may have actually saved lives since he would have potentially killed more with a bomb.
I believe that you are correct.
The average non gun owning person already thinks a 15 round glock is an assult weapon.
Huh? I've purchased ammunition online before, but it has been a number of years... I know that I used to by able to buy it through "cheaper than dirt" and a number of other on-line vendors. Did the laws change while I wasn't looking?
Mark
They are probably doing us a favor. We don’t need records on the internet of every ammo purchase made in the US.
Alot of them were junk too...manufactured in haste just before the ban took effect...no quality control.
I know, I got burnt on a few for a berretta 92.
At the same time you could buy 30 rd AK clone mags for $10 and 75 rd drums for $100.
What’s the make and model and caliber of that pistol?
Not since Friday, when I had 500 rounds of Wolf .223 delivered to my door by UPS.
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