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He walked into a Roanoke, Va, gun shop on March 13th and walked out with a Glock 9mm pistol and a box of practice ammunition by producing the necessary three forms of valid id and clearing the NCIC check.
He later bought the .22 at a pawn shop.
There's not even a waiting period in Virginia. Dateline reported last night also that "many of the guns used in crimes in New York City are purchased in Virginia."
Our attorney general has already initmated that he wouldn't expect any laws to necessarily change based on the massacre because of the constitutional issues it raises. In an interview he noted that it was "too early to discuss such matters...we don't even know how he obtained the weapons at this point." Which was funny, because the news already knew, yet he didn't, and, (guess what?), it's his motherfucking job to fucking know.
So, let's continue on with this "constitutional" protection theme, shall we?
Some of you may have seen the interviews with one of his English professors.
She eventually had to teach him separate from the rest of the class because he was weirding everyone out. Before this, she repeatedly approached the Dean, Student Affairs, and so on, about her concern over his persistently violent writings. VA Tech officials emphatically told her over and over that he was free to write whatever as long as he wasn't writing in the first person, that it was a free speech issue, and that the professor should only grade him based on his writing skills and not the content.
Additionaly, he recently set fire to a dorm room and was sent to counseling in 2005 for stalking two female students.
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