Louisville gunman purchased rifle one week prior to shooting



Police say the gunman who killed five people in a downtown Louisville bank bought the rifle used one week prior to the shooting. NBC’s Maggie Vespa reports.

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47 comments

  1. I’m going to look for remote work. Violence up everywhere.

  2. Just another day in the USA. 😔

  3. This is why there needs to be a longer waiting times to get a gun.

  4. Shooter was a wacko democrat

  5. You won't hear it here but Newsmax are reporting the shooter was a big Trump hater

  6. Start holding the gun salesman responsible in these mass shootings and watch it all work itself out.

  7. Proving ONCE AGAIN that gun control doesn’t work.

  8. THAT LADY IN THE YELLOW BLOUSE IS EXTREMELY ANNOYING

    OBNOXIOUS

  9. “Elaine and I are devastated …" McConnell tweeted.
    However Republicans will still refuse to do anything other than offer their useless "hopes and prayers".

  10. Hope they recorded the Teams call. Let’s play that for congress for a day.

    Maybe they will do something?

  11. Why is everyone focusing on the gun and not the insane criminal who committed this heinous act? Who cares what gun! If he had used a hammer they'd be talking about how insane he was.

  12. Both political parties are responsible for making reasonable laws but both are focused on screwing each other for sound bites.

    Leaving us to attend funerals.

  13. Republicans handed him the gun….they WILL arm the next one as well..it will be soon.

  14. When constitution was written all guns only had single rounds. There is nothing in 2nd amendment that disallows banning all guns with more than 1 round. Would have likely saved over 90% of kids lives in mass shootings and would have reduced deaths/injuries in this shooting dramatically.

  15. The police need to be more vocal about these AR-15 weapons and ones like them that can cause so much death within minutes. It took about 4 minutes for this many people to be killed or injured. He wasn't a proficient marksman. It was the amount of bullets he could discharge within seconds that made this go from a shooting to a mass shooting.

  16. Let’s be clear about what this was… You failed your constituents. You fought for their Second Amendment rights… And now they’re dead. Death becomes them?

  17. Former Chief Justice Warren Burger, a conservative, said the idea that there was an individual right to bear arms was "a fraud." …the Second Amendment "has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime."

  18. Mental problem. Too much shooting games. Zero gun control. Wow this human rights?

  19. All these crazy liberal martyrs committing mass shootings to try and get gun laws changed…. 😡

  20. Not a single gun control law would have prevented this murderer from buying a firearm. More proof that gun control laws don’t work.

  21. Lovely…not…I'm sick😮yet another unforced error US of A.

  22. Whew! At least he wasn't a trans! That really hurt your branding in Nashville!

  23. Clarence Thomas, is your man… He is the puppet of a Hitler fan.
    Uncle Tom would sure be proud… He sold his soul for half a pound.
    If you think he’s right for you… You might be a Nazi too.

    Sound off!

  24. How did he get rifle in?

  25. Question: How did the suspect know he was going to be "fired ? Had he ever failed at anything ( sports, school, relationships ) ? If he had a number of concussions why was he allowed to continue

  26. The Beatles spoke it best, said ironically: Happiness is a warm gun, yea. It seems to be the N.R.A.'s fight song – no irony.

  27. Buying a gun should be public knowledge inform everyone. Which would make these events less likely

  28. Follow Kid Rocks lead and shoot up Cases of Bud Light. MAGA. Don't forget to send in those Videos.

  29. Hopefully they will tell us why he was being fired? They must of gave him a two week notice, instead of just immediately firing him, escorting him out and turning off his badge access.

  30. Purchase legally by a crazy person
    No way!!!
    Kentucky murked their Own
    Nashville murked their Own
    By Not Protecting Children and Families and Community

    Gun Violence is destroying families and communities
    Vote for common sense gun laws Now

  31. We can do better than this America

  32. Wow, who would have thought weak gun laws make it extremely easy for these events to keep happening over and over and over and….
    FFS!

  33. And? He could have went down to the projects and bought a gun illegally.
    You idiots act like street gun sales are a conspiracy theory.
    And guns can easily be brought across the southern border.
    You people can't even control organized Drug gangs… but you want to target law abiding gun owners

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  35. Republicans are the. Problem.

  36. Another case where red flag laws could have made the difference. There will always be firearm availability in this country.

  37. Kin Tuckee, Tenn, all the red states with LOTS of guns.

  38. White males are the issue here. Like it or not. They are killing in cold blood. Every week. But y’all say gun control? 🤣 who’s pulling the trigger? Just look at all the mass shooters over just the last 100 days. Go back to columbine and add it up.. 85 % are white males .. I didn’t make this 💩 up..

  39. Fake news…Another staged shooting.. !!!