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Dealer who sold gun to Virginia Tech shooter speaks at Blacksburg campus

April 25, 2008
Eric Thompson calls for letting students carry concealed weapons.

A weapons dealer who sold a gun used in last year's Virginia Tech massacre came to the Blacksburg campus Thuresday to argue that letting college students carry concealed weapons is the best way "to get serious" about stopping killers. Eric Thompson owns the online store TGSCOM Inc. of Green Bay, Wis., which sold killer Seung-Hui Cho a .22-caliber handgun, one of two guns Cho used.

Click here to read The Richmond Time-Dispatch article.

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