They say that new gun restrictions aren’t needed – we just need to enforce the ones we already have. As it turns out, Seung-Hui Cho was legally ineligible to purchase firearms:
Under federal law, the Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho should have been prohibited from buying a gun after a Virginia court declared him to be a danger to himself in late 2005 and sent him for psychiatric treatment, a state official and several legal experts said Friday.
Federal law prohibits anyone who has been “adjudicated as a mental defective,” as well as those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental health facility, from buying a gun.
Only 22 states report the proper information to the federal background check database, and
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