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Unless the shooter told the gun store something to the effect of "I need to buy a gun so I can go kill a bunch of people" then the Federal PLCAA act also comes into play. I hate it when I hear about an attorney filing a case like this because he leaves HIS victims a huge legal bill for the defendant's expenses.

anygunanywhere wrote:DPS states the shooter had three wounds, one in the torso, one in the leg, one in the head. The head wound was self inflicted. The armed citizen’s cousin said the citizen shot him twice in the neck.

Regardless of which is correct the armed citizen is a true hero who deserves all our thanks.

He really needs to keep magazines loaded and ready though.

Unfortunately if you are using AR mags (especially with steel feed lips) keeping them loaded will damage the feed lips if they are not inserted in the weapon. If you are using a magazine like a p-mag you can leave them loaded as long as you have the little "dust cover" or feed lip protector thing in place over the feed lips.

From a political view the good guy's weapon choice is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because it can be pointed to as an example where an AR pattern rifle (and a so-called assault weapon) were used to interrupt an attacker. It's a curse because the opposition will use the unloaded magazine being loaded as he went to stop the shooter to claim so called 'so storage requirements' do not impede self defense and they will claim castrated capacity magazines are ok because the good guy was able to use the limited capacity caused by having to load the magazine to stop the attacker. Although I suspect they will ignore the good guy's part in the whole event.

Here's the sum total of everything we know for a fact at this point: Nothing.

I have seen news interviews with witnesses, a man who claimed he drove in pursuit of the shooter while the armed neighbor rode with him, I have also seen the typical claims from both sides of the debate. Until facts are known let's minimize the speculation and remember the media will be all over this forum monitoring for anything they can use to push their agenda.