[Southack]

...but who sold the weapons to the victims?

< sound of crickets >

[the invisib1e hand]

I get it now. Once the lawsuits start (elliot spitzer copycats) dealers will be scared out of business.

Interesting strategy by the emasculators.

[coloradan]

The story is typical of the MSM’s hysteria. Of course if some deranged maniac idolized the VA Tech shooter, he could buy some parts from the same store, just to walk in his idol’s footsteps. Does this mean the gun store is at fault, or liable, or should be shut down? Not at all. If anything, the media is liable for putting out the information about the original crime, and which store the last killer brought what items from. But, will they hold themselves liable? Never.

[elpinta]

How ‘bout we float some ideas:

1 - The media does NOT, ever, show pictures or publish the names of the sick ba$$tards that commit these crimes.
2 - The media DOES point out how these nameless, pathetic, sick individuals, while needing help, still lived and died in vain.

Point: why, why, ever, give these folks this much press???
Is bad enough their families are a mess, but WHY provide other sick-minded people with an assured path to fame???

[SkyDancer]

A law suit there - magazines and a holster ... definitely a crime .....

[Cacique]

The socialists have a solution, ban money and you can’t buy any of this stuff.

[chuckles]

One med, SSRI’s, hundreds of murders and suicides. He was off his Paxil. This is what happens when you quit an SSRI. I’ve seen it personally with a family member and a neighbor, it’s scary.

From what I saw, its worse than heroin withdrawal. There are tens of millions out there on SSRI's. Try to imagine a world that couldn't get them.

[RabidBartender]

"Eric Thompson said Friday that his Web site, www.topglock.com, sold two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster to Stephen Kazmierczak on Feb. 4, just 10 days before the 27-year-old opened fire in a classroom and killed five before committing suicide."

'cause, you know, the holster is what set the whole thing off. If he didn't have that, none of this would have happened.

[endthematrix]

If the grabbers get their way with him...

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The MSM employees rarely mention the prescription drugs, as common to these shooting as the guns I think that it is fair to say.

Pharmaceutical companies are mega-buck advertisers in all media.

Ergo the reason the MSM employees never perform as reporters when it comes to these horrible crimes; they become advocates for "gun control."

Most MSM employees are skid marks on journalism's shorts.

[panaxanax]

“Kazmierczak carried a RIFLE and three handguns into the classroom Thursday”

“...the weapons he used in the shooting - the pump-action Remington SHOTGUN and a Glock 9mm handgun..”

I’m so confused. Was it a RIFLE or was it a SHOTGUN? Isn’t it about time these “newsreaders” took a firearms class or something? Freaking idiots.

[Resolute Conservative]

Yeah and Ford, Chevy, and numerous car dealers have sold cars to people who drive recklessly or drunk or both and kill people. Let’s sue them all since more people are killed in wrecks ever year than shot.

[wastedyears]

I won’t believe this article because it says he carried a rifle.

WRONG

Remington 870 is NOT a rifle.

[VeniVidiVici]

Wis.-Based Internet Gun Dealer Sold Weapons, Accessories To NIU And Va. Tech Shooters

BS article, BS title. The whole article is meant to convey that somehow TopGlock was doing something illegal. Or that Nutcase got his hands on his guns illegally.

[Kickass Conservative]

I live in Orange County, CA. Last year a family lost two young children when rear ended by a Tractor Trailer on the freeway. By using the logic based in this article, we’d better shut down all the Peterbilt Dealers in the country.

[Hot Tabasco]

sold two empty 9 mm Glock magazines

Each magazine can hold 33 bullets.

Is that true?????? I have a P-226 Sig but the maximum rounds its mags can hold is 15.....

[armymarinemom]

People who want to cause death and destruction will always find a way. The largest school massacre on record involved a bomb.

[montag813]

This should do wonders for his website’s business. I may buy something myself for a cousin (I don’t own a Glock).

[Still Thinking]

A Green Bay-based Internet gun dealer who sold a weapon to the Virginia Tech shooter last year sold handgun accessories to the man who killed five at Northern Illinois University on Thursday.

While correct in a very narrow grammatical sense these "he bought his guns on the internet" claims are extremely misleading. The media watching public is being told, sometimes in almost those very words, that guns can be purchased over the internet and somehow avoid background checks. This is simply not true. The weapon must be transferred through a FFL local to the purchaser who must complete the same checks as if he sold a gun from his own inventory to the guy. The only advantage to an internet purchase is more selection and maybe a price advantage.

Make sure to point this out to anyone with whom you discuss this issue. Also point out that the recurring violence always seems to happen in a place with laws or rules against carrying.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

"I'm still blown away by the coincidences," Thompson said Friday. "I'm shaking. I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this."

What, he didn't know he was selling guns? Newsflash: Guns are weapons that are used to kill people. Maybe he should sell something less lethal online. [flamesuit on]