May somebody in rcm can give you your own private psych test




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Psych testing is needed for any gun related purchase.

Meanwhile online dealers reap the blood money.

TMT


Wis. dealer sold gun extras to health club shooter
By TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press Writer Todd Richmond, Associated
Press Writer

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."

"It's just the nature of the business," he said. "We just happen to be
on the forefront in this industry."

Critics have accused Thompson of profiting from the attention he
received after the Virginia Tech and NIU tragedies.

Thompson visited the Virginia Tech campus after the attack to support
a local chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. And after
the NIU attack, he said the Web site Kazmierczak visited saw a spike
in traffic.

Andrew Goddard, whose son Colin was shot and wounded at Virginia Tech,
said Thompson "needs to have some sort of social responsibility."

"I take issue on the basic principal that he's selling something that
doesn't have a legitimate use outside of stalking and killing people,"
Goddard, of Richmond, Va., said.

It was not immediately clear if Sodini used the TGSCOM-bought
accessories during his attack. Sodini, 48, fatally shot himself after
opening fire on a weekly Latin dance aerobics class.

Federal law prevents the public from purchasing a hand gun in any
state but their own. People can purchase long guns, such as rifles, in
border states. Firearms dealers, however, can transfer weapons to one
another across state lines.

Online dealers often offer a larger selection of guns than their brick-
and-mortar counterparts. Someone who wants a gun from an online site
must first find a licensed firearms dealer in their home state who
will receive it and conduct the proper background checks. The local
dealers earn a fee for processing paperwork and conducting background
checks.

Thompson said attacks like Tuesday's underscore the need for people to
protect themselves because police can't respond in time to crises, he
said.

"This story should be about the victims and the tragedy and how to
prevent things like this in the future," Thompson said.