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Originally Posted by Hugh
Perhaps if civilians weren't allowed to buy AR style rifles, and stockpile thousands of rounds of ammo (by tracking sales of weapons and ammo), it may have mitigated the situation.
btw, 'rules in place' - the NRA got their puppets in Congress to vote down stopping people on the terrorist no-fly list being allowed to buy guns. They need stronger, more effective rules in place, with mandatory training and insurance - they have it for driving, why not for gun-owning.
btw2, you are utilising the NRA play-book when you mention 'a complete ban', when I said this wasn't going to happen...
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They still could have bought them from somewhere. There already large numbers of those weapons out there. They had a large amount of handgun ammo, so banning rifles wouldn't solve everything.
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An additional 1,400 rifle rounds were found inside the bullet-riddled vehicle the pair used to evade police on Wednesday. Police also recovered more than 2,000 handgun bullets
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Where do people buy pipe-bombs? They still had them when they aren't for sale.
If you're dangerous enough to be on a no-fly list, you are clearly too dangerous to be out on the streets in the first place. Allowing that situation is a major source of the problem.