I’m sure most of you are already aware of what happened in Western VA today (Roanoke).
A disguntled ex-employee of WDBJ by the name of Bryce Williams (also known as Vester Lee Flanagan) killed two former co-workers and also shot and wounded a person who was being interviewed at the time of the shooting. The shooter also used a GoPro action camera to record the shooting. The shooter, after a long attempt at escape and after uploading the footage for the public to see, shot himself in a suicide attempt hours from Roanoke, off of I-66 in Faquier county. He was flown to the INova care center in Fairfax where he died.
This guy was a pure nut. He was a gay Black man that appeared to have a chip on his shoulder, to the point where WDBJ terminated his employment. He was so belligerent that the room had to be cleared of employees while he cleared his desk and was escorted off the site with a police escort. His excuse for the killings was explained in his manifesto: the recent Charleston SC killings and the fact that at least one of the people he shot had apparently made racist remarks toward him. In fact, the bullets that he used to kill his victims apparently had their names written on the bullets. He also idolized several well-known deceased active shooters (Seung-Hui Cho of the Virginia Tech murders and the Columbine school killers).
The Left wasted no time in condemning the attack but also blaming background check ‘loopholes’ and lax gun laws. The VA governor (McAuliffe) assumed that the shooter obtained his gun via private sale, which doesn’t require background checks (which they think is a loophole in the law).
Well, it has been discovered (by ATF) that the shooter obtained his handgun, a Glock 19, via normal means — FFL. This means he submitted and passed a background check as most VA citizens have when buying through local gun stores.
This should take the wind out of the Left’s sails, as the shooter followed the process of the law in obtaining his weapon. Granted, he still killed two people, but there is no way to close any loopholes because no loopholes were exploited when he obtained his handgun.
The following is from VCDL’s (Virginia Citizen Defense League) VA-ALERT notification system:
This comes as no surprise to me, yet another killer passed his background check. BATFE has confirmed to ABC News that Bryce Williams had indeed purchased his gun “legally” from a dealer and passed a background check!
So, Governor McAuliffe, what was that you said this morning on your soapbox about how Virginia needs background checks for gun purchases?
Oh, and Delegate Patrick Hope – you already started an online petition to push for more background checks – what made you think that Mr. Williams had not passed a background check, just like Cho and virtually all the other mass shooters?
Here’s the story – thanks to member Walter Jackson for the link:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/26/atf-confirms-virginia-gunman-vester-flanagan-bought-his-firearm-legally/
or
http://tinyurl.com/q4a3klt
ATF Confirms Virginia Gunman Vester Flanagan Bought His Firearm ‘Legally’ – Breitbart
by AWR Hawkins26 Aug 2015
The gun was a Glock 19 9mm.
According to ABC News, Faison said Flanagan bough the gun “legally.” And BuzzFeed reports that Faison said the ATF had recovered the weapon today.
News that Flanagan bought his gun at a store squares with what Flanagan wrote in his manifesto, where he indicated that he “put down a deposit for a gun on 6/19/15.” That was two days after the heinous attack on the church-goers in Charleston, and The Telegraph reports that Flanagan said that very attack pushed him over the edge.
Confirmation that Flanagan passed a background check means he joins numerous other attackers and alleged attackers who have passed background checks for their guns. These include John Russell Houser (Lafayette), Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (Chattanooga), Dylann Roof (Charleston), Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (Garland), Jared and Amanda Miller (Las Vegas), Elliot Rodger (Santa Barabara), Ivan Lopez (Fort Hood 2014), Darion Marcus Aguilar (Maryland mall), Karl Halverson Pierson (Arapahoe High School), Paul Ciancia (LAX), Andrew John Engeldinger (Minneapolis), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard), Tennis Melvin Maynard (West Virginia), Wade Michael Page (Sikh Temple), James Holmes (Aurora theater), Jared Loughner (Tucson), Nidal Hasan (Fort Hood 2009), Jiverly Wong (Binghamton), Seung-Hui Cho (Virginia Tech), Naveed Haq (Seattle), and Mark Barton (Atlanta).
The fact that Flanagan passed a background also calls into question Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe’s (D) call for background check legislation earlier today. He called for that legislation while the police pursuit of Flanagan was still underway.
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