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[billh58]

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[Still Sensible]

1. How in hell does a convicted felon

get an arsenal?

[billh58]

2. Friends, realtives, Internet, theft, etc.

Straw purchases and easy access to guns are a huge problem in this country, but our spineless Congress is afraid of the right-wing gun lobby and will not pass gun control legislation to close these loopholes in the law.

[BrotherIvan]

9. "easy access to guns are a huge problem in this country"

Amen.

[dogman]

3. Possibly no background checks.

When you want a gun, you want it now.

[cui bono]

4. I don't know what state this was in but I've heard Thom Hartmann mention a few times lately

that in AZ you can buy whatever you want from a store, then turn around and sell/give it to someone else and that's legal.

[billh58]

5. This particular incident

occurred in Texas -- that bastion of reason and rationality.

[brewens]

6. He can buy all that from private parties and at gun shows in most states. n/t

[Paladin]

10. With surprising ease, that's how. (nt)

[Politicalboi]

7. Guns from God given rights

According to a federal complaint, Hammond said he got some of the guns from his father and others “he had come across over the years.”
“Hammond stated he believed the right to have guns came from God and not from government,” according to the complaint.

[Doctor_J]

8. obviously the result of too many laws

Hopefully the law allows the authorities to confiscate the entire arsenal, so he'll now be a bad guy WITHOUT a gun

[stone space]

11. I've been told that right here at DU.

Although the right-wing gun lobby supporters warn that calling the cops on someone carrying a gun in public will result in a "false report" charge, this story indicates that is not always the case.