Gun Company To The Serial Killers

"Bridgeville health club shooter George Sodini, Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho and Northern Illinois University gunman Steven Kazmierczak" - AP

A Wisconsin internet company, The Gun Source (TGSCOM Inc.), which specializes in guns, furnished three serial killers with weaponry that claimed the lives of dozens of people, in well publicized cases.

Eric Thompson, owner of The Gun Source (AP)

While, the Constitution guarantees Americans the right to bear arms, it is a little scary that these three mentally unbalanced men, obtained guns so easily and wreaked havoc on society, via mass shootings. My condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.

Wis. dealer sold gun extras to health club shooter

MADISON, Wis. — An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

Eric Thompson, whose company TGSCOM Inc. last year sold an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus to George Sodini, the man who shot up a Collier Township, Pa., health club on Tuesday, said the sale was legal and his company did nothing wrong.

"The firearms industry and firearms dealers are lambasted by the media and by politicians all the time and very often nobody stands up and says 'hey, we didn't do anything wrong,'" Thompson said. "I'm ... being penalized by doing a good job and employing a lot of people and selling sporting goods ... I'm not some backwoods guy just making to look a buck off of tragedy."

Thompson's company, which is based in Green Bay and employs about 40 people, also sold a gun or accessories to the shooters in the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University attacks.

Seung-Hui Cho used a .22-caliber handgun bought from TGSCOM in his attack at Virginia Tech in April 2007, in which 32 people were killed. Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five people in an NIU classroom before killing himself in February 2008, bought two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster through a TGSCOM site.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms doesn't keep statistics on online gun sales, but Thompson said online sales are taking business away from stores. Thompson declined to say how much the company made in sales last year, but said it was "in the millions of dollars."...

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