In the last 60 days Mr. Holmes had purchased four guns at local gun shops, Chief Oates said. And through the Internet, he bought more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition: more than 3,000 rounds for the assault rifle, 3,000 rounds of .40 caliber ammunition for the two Glocks, and 300 rounds for the 12-gauge shotgun. The guns were all bought legally, a federal law enforcement official said.
Mr. Holmes also purchased online multiple magazines for the assault rifle, including one 100-round drum magazine. “With that drum magazine, he could have gotten off 50, 60 rounds, even if it was semiautomatic, within one minute,” Chief Oates said.
Dan Frosch and Kirk Johnson for the NYTimes
However you may stand re gun control, it should not be that easy to purchase that many guns and that much ammunition. How can you make an argument that it is necessary for anyone to own those weapons and that much ammunition?
I’d like to think that the government would act on behalf of its citizenry rather than the interests of the NRA etc but they certainly don’t seem able to do that on other topics so my hope of this is very small.
