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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Kentucky shooter's name is Joseph Couch -
He bought an AR this morning with 2,000 rounds - a 32 year old white male - SIL says he said he saidwas going to kill everyone in the family
BOSSHOG
(38,839 posts)Its a Fact of Life. Thoughts and Prayers. You can verify this post by contacting the gop or the nra.
Stallion
(6,514 posts)rubbersole
(7,989 posts)0rganism
(24,373 posts)Nah, almost certainly a coincidence.
I did wonder
0rganism
(24,373 posts)Maybe, yet I also wondered.
malaise
(275,216 posts)Incorrect timing.
Journeyman
(15,120 posts)0rganism
(24,373 posts)Where she goes... Nobody knows
Deuxcents
(18,463 posts)Or is this a usual purchase? Now that theres a manhunt on for the buyer, what does the seller have to say?
malaise
(275,216 posts)Freedumb and all
duncang
(2,758 posts)But before I retired there were several coworkers I knew who would buy them in bulk lots like that. Some even got dealers licenses to get them wholesale along with guns. Its been 15 years plus since then.
One guy who had a dealers license was careless enough that his wife mentioned he had accidentally fired off at least 3 rounds in separate incidents in the house. I wasnt there to buy a gun or ammunition but to pick up a donation of camping equipment for the scout troop I was with. When someones wife mentions it to someone they never met before thats telling.
Attilatheblond
(3,660 posts)It's not just the guns that are the problem, it's also the capitalist zealots who know damned well they are profiting from large sales to gun runners and crazy people.
CatWoman
(79,511 posts)wasn't that the last name of that asshole who shot up the church in SC???
Bookreadingliberal53
(30 posts)herding cats
(19,585 posts)I'll check since I'm not alone now.
CatWoman
(79,511 posts)herding cats
(19,585 posts)Man, what a crappy association.
Thanks for letting me know.
pamela
(3,474 posts)Killed all those people in Texas, driving drunk.
thank you
tanyev
(43,980 posts)BattleRow
(623 posts)Remember Crooks?
Is it just me,or is there some weird synchronicity to the surnames of these individuals?
MagickMuffin
(16,802 posts)Rough Rough!
Midnight Writer
(22,641 posts)malaise
(275,216 posts)Hes an abysmal loser - five injured according to CNN and the NYT.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/07/us/kentucky-interstate-75-shooting/index.html
Jack Valentino
(395 posts)Crazy stupid fuckers
that sounds like something I would say
Jack Valentino
(395 posts)Well, so many gun-owners have been stockpiling ammunition that it led to shortages many years ago... so I suppose someone buying up 2000 rounds for his new gun sadly would not raise any "red flags"-- and they wouldn't have much standing to do anything about it, even if it did--
short of the buyer saying
"I need this much ammunition so that I can kill my whole family,
which is a really big family
and I am a really bad shot"...
malaise
(275,216 posts)which is good news
jeffreyi
(1,998 posts)Probably not cheap...
James48
(4,556 posts)About $2k US, in most gun stores.
Will that be cash, or charge?
Thats the only question asked.
DetroitLegalBeagle
(2,081 posts)1000 rounds could cost more then the rifle. I've seen the rifles going for as low as 400, 1000 rounds I think is about 450-500.
ProfessorGAC
(68,359 posts)Found 3 sites selling that round.
They were $330, $340, & $360 for 500 rounds. So, $1,300-1,400 or so for the ammo.
It wasn't an exhaustive search, though. There may be cheaper retailers.
The all offered free shipping though.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,011 posts)Attilatheblond
(3,660 posts)The shop the Uvalde shooter used was already under investigation for unusually high volume sales, especially ammunition. People in the US make money running guns and ammo into Mexico for the Cartels. Legislators MUST know it goes on if an old crank like me is aware of the problem.
Ah, profits.... always profit over lives.
spooky3
(35,561 posts)Is it just a coincidence that most of these mass shooters have similar demographics?
malaise
(275,216 posts)rubbersole
(7,989 posts)...soliciting a donation to the Faternal Order of Police.
...he's from a shithole country...probably trans-sexter demoncrat...heathen liberal welfare cheat...who burns bibles...and loves...
SATAN!
AZ8theist
(6,117 posts)orwell
(7,856 posts)...harvester!
NBachers
(17,790 posts)Klarkashton
(1,053 posts)For a boy scout project and the guy at the counter asked me if I was planning to build a bomb.