How The El Paso Shooter Obtained His Firearm

By Tom Knighton

One of the points of interest following any mass shooting is in just how the shooter got his firearm in the first place. After all, so much of gun control revolves around trying to prevent that individual from obtaining a firearm, it only makes sense we’d want to see what he did to get it.

With El Paso still very fresh on our minds, we still want to know how he got the WASR-10 he used to kill 22 people and injure 24 others.

Now, we know.

When the alleged gunman walked into an El Paso Walmart earlier this month to carry out the worst massacre of Hispanic people in recent American history, he went in with an assault weapon he said he bought from Romania, according to a Texas Department of Public Safety report obtained by The Texas Tribune.

The white 21-year-old suspect in the shooting told El Paso police shortly after his arrest that the Romanian AK-47 was sent to a gun dealer near his home in Allen, a suburb outside of Dallas. He also said he bought a thousand rounds of ammunition from Russia.

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Gun experts said it’s common for people to buy imported firearms online and have them …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms