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NIU and Virginia Tech mass murderers both obtained their guns illegally

Last April I posted on a federal gun law that had been violated when Virginia Tech mass murderer Seung-Hui Cho obtained the guns that he used to kill his victims. Well it looks like the Northern Illinois University (NIU) shooter obtained his murder weapons after violating the same law.

What law? As Newsweek revealed last year, the 1968 federal gun law that blocks convicted criminals from buying firearms (passed after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy) also prohibits gun purchases by those who have a history of mental illness. Cho had been committed to a mental institution and lied on his gun application.

And The Associated Press reports that Steven Kazmierczak, the NIU killer, also had mental health problems. It reports that a former employee at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House, a Chicago psychiatric treatment center, said Kazmierczak had been placed there for more than a year after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications.

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