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Authorities say #Boston bombing suspects may have bought bomb components locally, but guns came... (Original Post) Tx4obama Apr 2013 OP
Dunno, Boston's got plenty of black market guns Warpy Apr 2013 #1
Bombs- Bed bath and beyond, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's type stores underpants Apr 2013 #2
Guns from Vermont? Vermont has very few gun laws. FarCenter Apr 2013 #3
yeah, I just posted about that cali Apr 2013 #4
Hear that, Senate Voters of Shame? nt onehandle Apr 2013 #5
Sadly I bet Florida DonCoquixote Apr 2013 #6

Warpy

(111,250 posts)
1. Dunno, Boston's got plenty of black market guns
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:05 PM
Apr 2013

Most of them were stolen from suburbanites in burglaries. A good proportion of the rest came from gun shows in Dixie, run up to Boston a day later and on the street the day after that. A few of them are strawman purchases.

underpants

(182,781 posts)
2. Bombs- Bed bath and beyond, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe's type stores
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:11 PM
Apr 2013

as posted before - I expect the guns (if we can trace them to the original sale) where from Virginia. I95 is the "iron pipeline".

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
6. Sadly I bet Florida
Sun Apr 21, 2013, 07:38 PM
Apr 2013

Our Gun shows are so loose a bunch of teenagers from Denver named Eric and Dylan were able to get armed. Our pawn shops advertise ar-15s, and you can get them easier than a car.

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