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Same Gun Dealer Supplied NIU and Va. Tech Killers

Posted Feb 16, 08 5:15 AM CST in Crime & Courts,  US    Editor's Choice

(Newser) – An online gun dealer who helped arm the Virginia Tech shooter also sold accessories to the killer in Thursday's Northern Illinois University rampage, the AP reports. "I'm still blown away by the coincidences," said Eric Thompson, whose company, TGSCOM, is based in Green Bay. He called a federal agency yesterday when he realized he had sold two magazines and a holster to Illinois shooter Stephen Kazmierczak. 

One of Thompson's sites, TheGunSource.com, sold Seung-Hui Cho a Walther .22-caliber handgun before he killed 32 people at Virginia Tech in April. TopGlock.com sold Kazmierczak two 9mm Glock magazines and a holster—but no guns—this month. "I'm shaking," Thompson said. "I can't believe somebody would order from us again and do this."

Source Associated Press

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In this photo released Feb. 15, 2008, by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is Steven Kazmierczak who was identified by Florida authorities and a university official familiar with the investigation...   (Associated Press)
A Glock handgun similar to the one used by the NIU shooter (PRNewsFoto/GLOCK, Inc.)   (Associated Press)
The sun sets over six crosses bearing the names of the five victims and the gunman in Thursday's shooting, on a hill on the campus of Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., Friday, Feb. 15, 2008....   (Associated Press)
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