Crime & Safety
REPORT: Seattle Shooter Bought Gun From Same Tacoma Store Of D.C. Sniper Fame
KING 5 is reporting that Ian Stalwicki purchased the gun he used to kill five people and himself from Bullseye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, which is where John Muhammed and Lee Malvo bought their firearms.
KING 5 is reporting that Ian Stalwicki - whom police believe shot six people in Seattle on Wednesday before turning the gun on himself - bought his gun from the same Tacoma store where the D.C. sniper got his firearms.
Stalwick purchased the guns this year from Bullseye Shooter Supply in Tacoma, KING 5 reports, the Downtown Tacoma store - a few miles outside of Lakewood - where John Muhammed and Lee Malvo bought their firearms before going on a calculated shooting spree in the Washington D.C. area.
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Bullseye made national headlines in 2002 following the D.C. sniper killings that left 10 people dead. A trace of the bushmaster rifle that John Muhammed and Lee Malvo trained on innocent civilians revealed that it came from Bullseye.
Subsequent ATF audits showed that Bullseye had lost track of hundreds of guns in its inventory and couldn't verify that background checks had been run on buyers.
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