Ramos made the purchases just days after turning 18, the minimum age under federal law for buying a rifle.
Salvador Ramos legally purchased two guns in the days before the attack that killed 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School - an AR-style rifle from a federally licensed gun dealer in the Uvalde area on May 17 and a second rifle on May 20. VP Harris tells Buffalo mourners: 'We will come together'Ī look at how suspects in mass shootings over a decade obtained guns, based on police accounts, court documents and contemporaneous reporting: In some cases shooters got guns legally under current firearms laws, or because of background check lapses or law enforcement’s failure to heed warnings of concerning behavior. mass shooters whose ability to obtain guns has raised concerns. If he really got mad.” But authorities say he had no known criminal or mental health history. The Texas suspect’s mother told ABC he gave her an “uneasy feeling” at times and could “be aggressive. The Buffalo suspect was taken to a hospital last year for a mental health evaluation, but the incident didn’t trigger New York’s “red flag” law and he was still able to purchase a gun.
The suspects in the shootings at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school and a Buffalo, New York, supermarket were both just 18, authorities say, when they bought the weapons used in the attacks - too young to legally purchase alcohol or cigarettes, but old enough to arm themselves with assault-style weapons.