Summary
On March 13, 2007, a Virginia Tech student walked into a Roanoke gun store, armed with a credit card. A short time later, Seung-Hui Cho walked out of Roanoke Firearms, armed with a Glock 9 mm pistol.
It was an unremarkable transaction. Cho said or did little to draw attention to himself, and a computer background check found no felony convictions or mental health commitments that would have barred him from buying a gun.See the full content of this document
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Tragedy Prompts Significant Changes
Yet it soon became clear -- after Cho used the Glock and a second handgun to kill 32 students and professors, then himself, on the Tech campus four years ago today -- that the system had failed.
Cho, it turned out, had been court-ordered to receive outpatient mental treatment. That made it illegal for him to have a gun. But at the time, only commitments to mental hospitals were included in the database used to screen potential gun buyers.After Cho slipped through a crack in the system and went on...See the full content of this document
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