Virginia's Failure to Follow Federal Law Let Cho Buy Guns

Virginia's Failure to Follow Federal Law Let Cho Buy Guns

The Times changed their headline from U.S. Law Made Killer Ineligible to Buy Gun to
U.S. Rules Made Killer Ineligible to Purchase Gun

"Under federal law, the Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho should have been prohibited from buying a gun after a Virginia court declared him to be a danger to himself in late 2005 and sent him for psychiatric treatment, a state official and several legal experts said Friday. ... A spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives also said that if Mr. Cho had been found mentally defective by a court, he should have been denied the right to purchase a gun." Michael Luo, NYT