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You want the DDM4V7 used by the Texas shooter, it takes 5 clicks on your PC (Original Post) doc03 May 2022 OP
Where the hell leftieNanner May 2022 #1
credit card? anarch May 2022 #2
That's the most likely answer, I think. MineralMan May 2022 #6
Borrowed Grandma's credit card w/o permission? KS Toronado May 2022 #3
Maybe Grandma discovered he used her card and it ended up with him shooting her? nt doc03 May 2022 #4
That's a very likely scenario KS Toronado May 2022 #7
He had a job at a local Wendy's Roland99 May 2022 #5
Edited: You were right, Roland. He used his job to save up the money. crickets May 2022 #8
I won't go to the website Best_man23 May 2022 #9
You still have to pass the federal background check at a local FFL dealer before getting the gun Kaleva May 2022 #10
True, but it is the same NICS check when transferred SYFROYH May 2022 #11

KS Toronado

(17,355 posts)
7. That's a very likely scenario
Fri May 27, 2022, 10:25 AM
May 2022

From what I've heard, she's expected to recover, her first interview we'll know for sure.

crickets

(25,986 posts)
8. Edited: You were right, Roland. He used his job to save up the money.
Fri May 27, 2022, 12:29 PM
May 2022

Last edited Fri May 27, 2022, 01:07 PM - Edit history (2)

Minimum wage in TX is $7.35 an hour. At most, Salvador Ramos might have been making close to $10 an hour at Wendy's. Maybe.

https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Wendy's/salaries?location=US%2FTX

Even working full time and putting every penny toward saving up almost $2000 dollars to buy that one gun (he had two) as well as the ammo, it would take a while and show some serious desire for harm and mayhem. If he paid for the guns and ammo with his own money from a low paying job, it just shows how determined he was to kill somebody, lots of little defenseless somebodies.

Edit to add:

You were right, Roland. Ramos got a job at Wendy's specifically to save up for the guns and ammo. The Sun is not the greatest source, but I think it's accurate on this point.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18686963/texas-school-shooter-plot-wendys-quit-saved-enough/

Cruz exclusively told The US Sun that Ramos openly talked about how he was using the money from the job to buy guns and ammo and suddenly quit weeks before the school shooting after making enough.

It has been estimated that the teen would have spent around $4,000 on his weapons, ammunition and tactical-style vest. [snip]

"He told us he was saving up money for guns and ammo. We would ask him, ‘Why would you spend your money on that, spend it on a car or something useful,’" Cruz said, adding that Ramos quit after he had saved enough.


Wow. *sigh*

Best_man23

(4,910 posts)
9. I won't go to the website
Fri May 27, 2022, 12:50 PM
May 2022

But I'll bet dollars to a box full of Fat Cop Pills (doughnuts) that they also take crypto as payment for their death machines.

SYFROYH

(34,185 posts)
11. True, but it is the same NICS check when transferred
Fri May 27, 2022, 12:57 PM
May 2022

By the local gun store with an FFL for a DD rifle or a hunting rifle they have in stock.
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