Friend of Dayton Gunman Arrested On Federal Gun Charges

By Tom Knighton

While much of the press is still fixated on El Paso, Americans still haven’t forgotten about Dayton. Not just yet anyway.

On Monday, police made an arrest in their investigation into the deadly shooting that left nine dead and 20 injured in the second mass shooting of that weekend. The arrest was of a friend of the gunman in the attack.

A friend of the man who police say opened fire in a Dayton, Ohio, entertainment district, killing nine people, will face federal charges, multiple news outlets reported Monday.

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The mass shooting in Dayton occurred less than a day after another shooting in El Paso, Texas, and reignited the national debate over gun control.

[Ethan] Kollie was arrested on Friday and is now being charged with lying on federal firearms forms and illegally possessing weapons.

In other words, it doesn’t look like actually is charged with playing a role in the attack, despite the impression given by many in the media. However, his own alleged lying on federal gun forms, coupled with his statements about the shooter, suggests that the killer didn’t buy his guns quite so legally after all.

During a second interview with Kollie on Aug. 8 he revealed that he …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms