Suit: Website sold ammo to underage accused Texas shooter
Source: ABC News
SANTA FE, Texas -- A teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school in 2018 was able to buy more than 100 rounds of ammunition online because his age was not verified, according to a lawsuit alleging that the website involved broke federal law.
Dimitrios Pagourtzis was a 17-year-old junior at the time of the May 2018 shooting at Santa Fe High School. Federal law prohibits minors from purchasing handgun ammunition, and bars licensed gun companies from selling handgun or shotgun ammunition to minors or anyone they have reason to believe is under the age of 21.
According to an amended lawsuit filed Thursday, Pagourtzis initially ordered 50 rounds of hollow-point handgun ammunition and 105 rounds of 12-gauge shotgun ammunition, the Houston Chronicle reported. Two weeks later, he purchased an additional 35 rounds of shotgun ammunition both times from the website Luckygunner.com that did not require him to make an account, submit proof of age or set-up a secure two-step authorization, the filing said.
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Luckygunner.com, along with its owners, Red Stag, have been listed as additional defendants in the amended lawsuit, which claims Red Stag mailed the ammunition via FedEx without requiring an adult to sign for the package. Neither Luckygunner.com nor Red Stag responded to requests from the Houston Chronicle for comment.
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paleotn
(17,989 posts)this company and it's owners aren't being criminally charged for violating federal law? Seems there's more teeth to selling alcohol to someone underage.
ck4829
(35,093 posts)paleotn
(17,989 posts)to use on the gun humpers when they go on and on about "enforcing existing laws!!" instead of enacting new gun restrictions. Sure, but those laws have no teeth and are no deterrent to bad behavior.
eggplant
(3,914 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)Prohibiting the sale of ammunition online will be completely constitutional - firearms cannot be sold online either.