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Cho Guns Were Legal Despite Police Record

Judge's ruling of "mental illness" no deterrent in Virginia

By Sam Gale Rosen, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 19, 2007 8:09 AM CDT

(Newser) – Killer Cho Seung-Hui's gun purchases were completely legal, despite his 2005 brushes with the police for stalking fellow students and threatening suicide. The judge who deemed him "an imminent danger to himself because of mental illness" ordered Cho to outpatient treatment; Virginia blocks gun... Read full story »

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