Wednesday, April 18, 2007

'Wash Post' Reveals: Virginia Tech Killer Bought First Gun Online

'Wash Post' Reveals: Virginia Tech Killer Bought First Gun Online: "Yesterday, the media revealed that Cho Seung Hui, the shooter in the Virginia Tech massacred, bought a pistol he used on Monday at a a gun shop in Roanoke, but mystery remained about the other weapon he used, with most reporting that he purchased it earlier this month.

Today The Washington Post clears that up. It discloses that on February 9, he 'walked into a pawnshop on Main Street in Blacksburg, directly across the street from the Virginia Tech campus, and picked up one of the guns he would use in his deadly rampage Monday: a Walther .22-caliber pistol, a relatively inexpensive firearm most commonly used for target shooting or plinking cans...."

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