More On: Salvador Ramos
A report from a Texas panel shows how easy it was for Uvalde school shooter Salvador Ramos to get weapons before he turned 18 years old
Worrying new video shows Salvador Ramos walking through the halls of a Uvalde school while police run away from gunshots
A damning report from Texas about the Uvalde school shooting shows in excruciating detail how easy and fast the killer got his guns and ammunition.
Salvador Ramos tried to get his family to buy him weapons before he turned 18 on May 16, but they didn't listen.
So, about three months before the shooting, he bought things like "60 30-round magazines, a holographic weapon sight, and a Hellfire Gen 2 snap-on trigger system" to go with his guns. On his 18th birthday, he started gathering the other things he would need to carry out the killing.
That day, a week before he killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers at his old elementary school, "an online retailer shipped 1,740 rounds of 5.56mm 75-grain boat tail hollow point [bullets], at a cost of $1,761.50," the report said.
Ramos also “ordered a Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 (an AR-15-style rifle) for shipment to a gun store in Uvalde, at a cost of $2,054.28 (including tax and transfer fee),’’ the probe found.
The next day, “he bought a Smith and Wesson M&P15 (also an AR-15-style rifle) at the same store in Uvalde, at a cost of $1,081.42.’’
On May 18, "he came back... for 375 rounds of M193, a 5.56mm 55-grain round with a full metal jacket, which has a soft core surrounded by a harder metal."
The report said, "Two days later, on May 20, 2022, he went back to the store to get his other rifle, which had arrived on May 18. He had the store staff put the holographic sight on it after the transfer was finished."
The report said that Ramos, a moody, unfriendly, and increasingly angry teen who was often teased by friends for being a possible "school shooter," passed background checks.
And amassing of his arsenal never landed on local authorities’ radar.
“While multiple gun sales within such a short period are and were reported to the ATF, the law only requires purchases of handguns to be reported to the local sheriff,’’ the report said.
“Here, the information about the attacker’s gun purchases remained in federal hands.”
Later, the owner of the gun store told the police that Ramos was just a "average customer" who told him he could pay for everything because he had saved up.
But other customers at the gun shop told investigators that Ramos "looked very nervous" and "looked like one of those school shooters." They also said that he gave them "bad vibes."
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