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US Gun Dealer Sold to Campus Killers, Touts Cheap Guns at Virginia Tech

24 April 2008

CNN

The owner of a company that sold firearm merchandise to both the Virginia Tech University and Northern Illinois University shooters said he will sell his guns at cost for the next two weeks in hopes that "law-abiding" citizens will buy them to prevent similar tragedies. A gunman killed 32 people in April 2007 at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg. "I want to help people save lives," Eric Thompson said Thursday. He was to speak Thursday evening at Virginia Tech... (GunPolicy.org)

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