In NJ, James Holmes likely would have been caught before committing his massacre

[jp11]

58. Bullshit.

Because the people he would have referenced and would've picked his friends or people who wouldn't piss on him, can't be relatives, as some sort of nut job to 'okay' him as a gun owner.

http://www.njsp.org/info/pdf/firearms/sts-033.pdf

There isn't a team that goes around investigating potential gun owners there is a form and it gets mailed out to people the applicant chooses if it isn't returned no permit, if they say negative things about the person probably, hopefully, no permit.

And in NJ I'm sure he could have driven over to PA for a gunshow and bought guns without any id, but I'm not positive about that. If not he could have driven to other states to buy a gun or just gotten one off the street.

You take the idea that this hindsight was readily available and known to all if that was the case then lots of people, his family members, neighbors, and employers all failed to speak out about him. What seems to be the case is he was just one of many shy, polite people that others would 'peg' as a potential nut because he was shy and nice ie he fit the quiet loner stereotype who goes nuts.