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James Holmes appeared despondent and drowsy in court on Monday, his first public appearance after
his arrest for a shooting at an Aurora, Colo, movie theater that killed 1 2 and injured dozens more.
Stocked-Upfor Rampage
c o n tin u e d
fr o m fr o n t
T he order, W einm an said, didn't
stand out.
"There's a w hole range o f c o n
sum ers w ho have an appetite for
these products, and 99.9 percent o f
th e m are la w -a b id in g c itiz e n s,"
W einm an said. B ut he said that it
m akes him sick that H olm es bought
m aterial from him . H e added that he
doesn't sell guns or am m unition and
that he w as "shocked" at the am ount
o f bullets that H olm es allegedly
bought online.
A uthorities say all o f H olm es'
purchases w ere legal — and there is
no official system to track w hether
people are stockpiling vast am ounts
o f firepow er.
T here is no restriction on the sale
o f bullets in the U nited States, e x
c e p t fo r a rm o r-p ie rc in g ro u n d s,
w hich can only be bought by law
enforcem ent, said G inger C olbrun, a
spokesw om an for the B ureau o f
A lcohol, T o b acco and Firearm s.
H ence the proliferation o f w ebsites
offering A m azon.com -style w ish
lists for hollow -point rifle rounds or
tracer bullets.
T here is a federal law that bars
selling body arm or to violent felons
— w hich H olm es w as not — but it is
rarely used because there is no re
quirem ent to check w hether p u r
chasers o f the m aterial have crim inal
records, according to D an G ross,
president o f the B rady C am paign
A gainst G un V iolence.
O ver fo u r m onths, authorities
said H olm es received m ore than 50
packages at his A urora apartm en t
an d the U n iv e rsity o f C o lo ra d o
m edical school, w here he w as study
ing neuroscience. A s the boxes piled
up, he began to shop for guns at
sporting goods stores -- because o f
the need to p ass a b a c k g ro u n d
ch eck to buy a firearm , they are still
generally bought at brick-and-m or-
tar locations.
O n M ay 22, law en fo rcem en t o f
ficials said H olm es b ought a G lock
pistol. Less than a w eek later, he
upgraded to a shotgun. T he fo llo w o ur S eco n d A m en d m en t rights,"
ing w eek he bought an A R -15 rifle, M orse said. "As long as we let
versions o f w hich had been o u t people buy these guns, w e will bury
law ed under the assault w eapon o u r children."
ban in 1994. But that prohibition
R ep C arolyn M cC arthy (D -N Y),
expired in 2004 and C ongress, in a w hose hu sb an d was killed in a m ass
nod to the political clo u t o f gun shooting on the Long Island R ail
enthusiasts, did not renew it.
road in 1993, has proposed a ban on
H olm es also acquired explosive h ig h -cap acity m agazines in C o n
m aterials and eq u ip m en t to rig his gress but acknow ledges it has little
entire ap artm en t w ith a com plex se chance o f passage. She said she
ries o f booby traps that took au w as ho rrified by the shooting but
thorities days to d ism antle. O ffi m ost shocked by the other m aterial
cials have not said how he obtained that H olm es allegedly accum ulated
the m aterial for the devices.
— the bullets and com bat gear.
H olm es capped o ff his gun p u r
"It befuddles m e to think those
chases w ith an o th er pistol on July 7. things should be sold to the general
A uthorities say that 12 days later, public," she said.
H olm es bought a ticket to the m id
C olorado State Rep. M ark W aller
night prem iere o f the B atm an m ovie cau tio n ed against trying to lim it
"The D ark K night R ises" and e n p urchases o f am m unition. He noted
tered the th eater w ith the crow d, that H olm es reportedly bought 300
then slipped out the side d o o r and rounds fo r his shotgun. "M y 13-
retu rn ed dressed for battle.
year-o ld son and I go out to the
O ates said the shooter w ore a shooting range all the tim e," said
ballistic helm et, gas m ask, throat- W aller, a R epublican. "I buy m ore
protector, tactical vest and pants — than 300 rounds o f shotgun shells
such com plete protective gear that w hen I do that."
responding officers alm ost m istook
H e said there m ay be discussion
him for a m em ber o f the S W A T team. o f lim iting the sale o f the sort o f
H e lo b b e d gas c a n iste rs at the protective clothing that H olm es al
crow d, then opened fire. By the tim e legedly donned. "Is that w hat the
p olice arrived, 9 0 seconds later, right to bear arm s m eans, that you
H olm es had shot dozens o f people can purchase tactical g ear to stop
because his rifle w as m odified w ith law en fo rcem en t from preventing
a high-pow ered drum m agazine that you from p erpetrating a crim e?"
allow ed him to fire im m ense am ounts W aller asked. "In the days and weeks
o f bullets w ithout reloading. "It w as to com e, this is going to be a signifi
a pretty rapid pace o f fire in that cant conversation."
theater," O ates said.
B u t g u n e n th u s ia s ts c a u tio n
T he high-capacity m agazine had against over-reacting to the m assa
also been p rohibited under the a s cre. Brow n, o f R ocky M ountain G un
sault w eapon ban, and even though O w ners, said he thinks citizen's ac
the federal law expired, a few states cess to w eap o n ry has m ade the
o u tlaw ed the devices. C o lo rad o , U nited States "a stronger country."
w hich has relatively perm issive gun A nd he d o esn ’t see anything un
law s, did not.
usual about m any o f H olm es' al
C o lo ra d o S ta te S e n a to r Jo h n leged purchases.
M orse, a D em ocrat, said he w ished
"If I only h a d 6 ,0 0 0 rounds for my
th e s ta te b a rre d la rg e -c a p a c ity A R -15s, I'd literally feel naked,"
m agazines and guns like the A R -15, B row n said. T h en he totaled up
but he does not ex p ect the attack to H olm es' firearm s purchases: "Tw o
m ake that likely. "The N R A has handguns, a shotgun and a rifle.
m an ag ed to co n v in ce the country T hat's the average m ale in C o lo
that this has to happen to protect rad o ."
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