Just a question. How does a 19 year old afford an AR-15? CNN just

[sinkingfeeling]

said it would cost from $800 to $2200.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Maybe bought a stolen one cheap, or stole it himself?

[MFM008]

2. He doesnt

It's someone elses.......

[bearsfootball516]

3. Lot of kids have that much money

Not all, but a good amount. If you have a job and your parents pay for stuff, it's not that hard to pocket that much pretty quickly.

BUT, I would venture to say it's probably stolen.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. CNN is wrong.

[Flaleftist]

5. Ive seen them recently for about $350

at a pawn shop.

[regnaD kciN]

6. Saw one comment on FB from someone in that town...

Supposedly, the suspect lived in one of the rich communities there.

[MaryMagdaline]

12. Kids who go to Marjorie Stoneman Douglas tend to be upper middle class or wealthy and the

others are scholarship students. Going to be many politically connected parents at that school. Just as hopeless as the rest of us.

[Moostache]

7. Drug dealing? Just a guess...

Drug dealers are cash intensive and always have ample access to those kinds of purchases...maybe he was not though, like I said just a guess. No matter how, the fact remains he did get one and the damage was wrought in his wake...

[spanone]

8. daddy? mommy? santa claus? they should not be available anyfuckingwhere

[Iggo]

9. How can a 19-yr-old afford a car?

[SoCalMusicLover]

10. DAD

The same Dad that is now asking for privacy.

[raccoon]

14. I hope the families of the victims sue that bastard. In T

[NutmegYankee]

11. They can be bought way cheaper.

The cheapest is to just buy the lower receiver for $100, the only part with a serial number and background check requirement. After that it's $60 for a kit to load the mechanical guts and all the rest of the gun can be bought online at low cost.

We as a society are efficient with distributing our preferred tools of mass murder to any bloodthirsty hand.

[aikoaiko]

13. It's depends on the brand and quality.

You can get a decent reliable AR for $500 these days, but you can also drop $2000 on a high end model.

[obamanut2012]

15. THat area has a lot of money

One of my coworkers went to that HS and still lives in Parkland, another one lives their with her family (her kids were in the shooting today). Both are upper middle class. Parkland kids have money.

[Igel]

16. I know 16-year-olds who got a job.

They pay for their car insurance. They pay for their cell phones. They buy new cell phones.

They have trouble with big data plans, but $1000 for a phone? They save up for a couple of months. Necessities are provided. They don't date.

Or it may have been a present. Or maybe he was given money for a special occasion, Xmas or his birthday.