I feel bad for Eric Thompson (owner of TGSCOM and TopGlock.Com) – not because he sold these products, but because the media wants to somehow blame him for selling them.
We’re supposed to be surprised that the number 1 website for Glocks and Glock accessories was a common tie between two scumbags that used Glocks?
The receipt, obtained by Target 11, is for a Glock Magloader, a Glock 9mm and a Glock Factory Magazine.
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Channel 11 spoke with the president of the company, Eric Thompson, who confirmed the order was carried out in April 2008 with a cost of $46.40.
He bought a “Glock 9mm” for under $50? Methinks Channel 11 news is trying to make it look like the bad guy bought his gun there, when all he really did was buy some cheap accessories. Lame.
I bet these guys all bought stuff from Amazon and Ebay as well. Those sites must be SHUT DOWN NOW!!11!! We should also shut down any gas stations that may have sold fuel to people that used a getaway car in a robbery. It’s only logical.
We need to shut down food stores that sold them anything to eat as well!!111!!! If they had starved, they would have been too weak to pull the trigger!
PeterT beat me to what was to be my Wal-Mart argument.
Keep in mind that any gun this guy’s companies sold involved an FFL transfer. The federal, and probably state, government said that this person was okay to own a gun. CNN doesn’t like blaming the government, though.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:09 am
I feel bad for Eric Thompson (owner of TGSCOM and TopGlock.Com) – not because he sold these products, but because the media wants to somehow blame him for selling them.
We’re supposed to be surprised that the number 1 website for Glocks and Glock accessories was a common tie between two scumbags that used Glocks?
August 7th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
From the article:
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He bought a “Glock 9mm” for under $50? Methinks Channel 11 news is trying to make it look like the bad guy bought his gun there, when all he really did was buy some cheap accessories. Lame.
August 7th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
ben,
My thoughts exactly. They’re trying to spread the “any-kook-can-just-buy-a-gun-off-the-internet-just-like-Amazon” meme.
Or they are so profoundly ignorant they really believe it’s true.
August 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
We’re supposed to be surprised that the number 1 website for Glocks and Glock accessories was a common tie between two scumbags that used Glocks?
What surprises me is that these guys shop around for the best deal.
August 7th, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I bet these guys all bought stuff from Amazon and Ebay as well. Those sites must be SHUT DOWN NOW!!11!! We should also shut down any gas stations that may have sold fuel to people that used a getaway car in a robbery. It’s only logical.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
We need to shut down food stores that sold them anything to eat as well!!111!!! If they had starved, they would have been too weak to pull the trigger!
August 7th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
PeterT beat me to what was to be my Wal-Mart argument.
Keep in mind that any gun this guy’s companies sold involved an FFL transfer. The federal, and probably state, government said that this person was okay to own a gun. CNN doesn’t like blaming the government, though.