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1 results foundAuthor: Langman, Peter Title: The Origins of Firearms Used in School Shootings in the United States Summary: This document lists the sources of the firearms used by school shooters for the twenty-five year period from 1991 through 2015. The perpetrators are divided into secondary school, college, and aberrant adult shooters. (For explanations of these terms please see "About the Site" at www.schoolshooters.info or my book School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators.) The shooters listed here include those who carried out either single-victim or multi-victim attacks. This is not a complete list; for some shooters I could not identify the source of their firearms. The category of "Home" means that unless otherwise specified, the guns belonged to the shooter's parents. Footnotes are used to provide more specific information where necessary. After the lists, there are quotes from three reports regarding the legal issues related to the guns used by the shooters whose names are marked by an asterisk (Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, Seung Hui Cho, and John Zawahri). These reports are available at www.schoolshooters.info. The non-juvenile perpetrators fall into several categories. One consists of people such as Robert Flores and Duane Morrison who were long-term firearm owners. They were both middle-aged men who had served in the military when younger. Guns had been a part of their lives for a long time. They didn't buy guns to kill people, but when their lives fell apart, they used the weapons at hand. Even though I can't track down the sources of their guns, I included them in the list as examples of one type of firearm owner. Another category consists of people who deliberately obtained guns for the purpose of committing a school shooting. This includes Gang Lu, Wayne Lo, and Seung Hui Cho. Other shooters were adults who lived with a parent who was a gun owner. Examples of this category include Adam Lanza and Aaron Ybarra, who did not purchase guns of their own, but used firearms that their parents had bought. Generally speaking, secondary school shooters were not old enough to legally purchase their own firearms. Exceptions include Eric Houston (age 20) and Karl Pierson (age 18). Also, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold bought some guns through a straw purchase that was legal under Colorado law at that time (see Appendix for explanation). It is noteworthy that the juvenile shooters almost never obtained their weapons "on the street." In the vast majority of cases, young shooters took guns that belonged to their parents and other relatives. Out of all the cases in which the perpetrators took family members' firearms, it appears that all of these guns were owned legally except those used by Evan Ramsey and Jaylen Fryberg (see notes for details). The guns owned by family members were not purchased with the intent of committing mass violence, but were accessible to adolescent (and even pre-adolescent) perpetrators. This highlights the importance of firearm security within the home. Details: s.l.: The Author, 2016. 5p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 18, 2019 at: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/origins_of_firearms_1.1.pdf Year: 2016 Country: United States URL: https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/origins_of_firearms_1.1.pdf Shelf Number: 155022 Keywords: Firearms and Weapons Gun Acquisitions Gun SafetyGuns Mass Shootings School Shootings School Violence |