'Guns Galore' Reportedly Sold Both Fort Hood Shooters Their Guns

[onehandle]

Last edited Thu Apr 3, 2014, 10:09 PM - Edit history (2)

Source: Huffington Post

The man who killed three people and wounded 16 others before committing suicide at Fort Hood reportedly purchased his killing weapon at the same gun store where the first Fort Hood shooter bought his.

Unnamed law enforcement sources told both CNN and NBC News that Ivan Lopez recently bought a 45-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatic pistol from Guns Galore and used it in Wednesday's deadly shooting.

Talking Points Memo points out that, in 2009, Fort Hood killer Nidal Malik Hasan purchased his firearm at the same store. He used the tactical pistol to kill 13 people.

CNN reports that Lopez passed a background check and authorities don't believe the store did anything illegal by selling the gun.


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/03/guns-galore-fort-hood_n_5085997.html

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[ManiacJoe]

1. Were the databases properly updated?

[Duckhunter935]

2. If they both passed

the required background checks, what is the issue?

They followed the law.

Would a new UBC have helped?

[tclambert]

3. Does the gun store advertise that fact?

I wouldn't think it would help overall sales, but I'm just not sure . . .

[ileus]

4. Must either have the best prices/service or are the only gig in town.

[Paladin]

10. But either way, you're good with it, right? (nt)

[dionysus]

12. if these guys both passed the background checks, what else was the store supposed to do?

[ileus]

13. Best prices is acceptable, but the only shop in town would hint to higher prices.

[geomon666]

5. Guns Galore

How appropriate.

[jmowreader]

6. Google Maps is your friend

It's the closest gun store to Fort Hood, and they have any gun you want.

[NBachers]

7. Bloodbath & Beyond . . .

[a la izquierda]

9. To this day, that is how I refer to Bed, Bath & Beyond. Nt

[JohnnyRingo]

8. Guns Galore?

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Yer shittin' me.

I'm not anti gun, I grew up around them, but can't retailers of deadly ordinance take it a little more seriously? Is there a place called "Carnival of Hand Cannons" or "Poppa Capp's Gun Shack"?

I do remember a little gun store north of me in the middle of nowhere called "Mom's Dream", though. I always wished I got a pic of that hand painted sign on my way to party at Geneva-On-The-Lake Ohio. That was way before this current CCW fad where any idiot willing to sign papers opening his life to the govt can carry a pistol.

It's ironic that these are the same people who want the government out of their lives.

[Overseas]

11. Sad K&R.