Virginia Tech Killings: Brisk Business At Gun Shop
A gun shop.
While America and the world mourns for the dead at Virginia Tech, it was business as usual not far away at the shop from where the alleged killer, Cho Seung-Hui, bought the deadly weapons to carry out the massacre in the campus.
“As this part of southern Virginia and the rest of the US was struggling to come to terms with the bloody carnage that took place on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, 40 miles away, on the outskirts of Roanoke, the shop that sold Cho one of the two semi-automatic weapons he used with such devastating effect was open and doing swift business, reports The Independent.
“Five weeks ago, the 23-year-old foreign student entered the shop and paid $570 (£284) with a credit card for a Glock 9mm semi-automatic pistol and a box of 50 cartridges. He provided three different forms of identification and passed an additional security check carried out by the state police. The checks threw up no red flags. The entire transaction took no more than 20 minutes.
“Mr Markell, 58, said that officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) visited the store on the afternoon of the shooting – the receipt for the handgun had later been found on Cho – but they had not troubled him further. There had been no suggestion the shop should be closed or that business should be suspended…”
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