haha, nope just shooting cans in the backyard. I found out the hard way that 7.62 richochets off the ground whereas .223 doesn't. I have several metal enclosed trailers then a 10 foot high hill behind them so I don't hit a neighbors house. Several 7.62 holes punched thru the trailers but no .223 holes.

They were legally purchased and registered to his mother Not him. He was in possession of them ILLEGALLY.

And no law needed...she SHOULD have had the damn sense to keep her weapons locked up.

No law would have changed what happened. She simply wouldn't have told anyone her son was mentally ill. She would have lied and gotten her gun anyway is what I think.

Laws don't stop anybody from doing what they want...and they certainly wouldn't have stopped this crazy person from doing what he did. He would have just stolen a gun from somebody else and/or found another way to kill. :(

I do agree that his mom not locking her weapons up made it very easy for him to do it.
But I can only assume that those weapons were around the house before this happened. She obviously never saw it coming or even thought for a minute he would hurt her or those children.

You just can't predict what a person who is that crazy will do...and history has shown that you can't even tell HOW crazy some people are (Jeffrey Dahmer for instance...he was described by everyone as a really nice guy, just like most mass murderers)

She should not have been allowed to have weapons period. This kid was checked every box for mental illness and was so fucked up he killed his own mother AND twenty kids. There is no way she should have been allowed to own firearms.

My friend I keep talking about is on so much medication that some times he doesn't know which way is up. A few months ago his family got a phone call from the local PD - He took too much of one medication or not enough of another kind of medication, went out, forgot where he was going, who he was, and where he lived. He is armed with an AR15 and multiple handguns. There is no legal mechanism to remove the firearms from him.

This is the problem - the weapons get into the the hands of the madmen and the mentally ill. We need to stop this.

You welcome it like a sore ass.