Gun-store guy feels ‘sick’
A gun-store manager who sold firearms to the Las Vegas sniper says he doesn’t feel guilt over the massacre — but does feel sick to his stomach.
“We do everything right . . . We can’t control what someone does once they leave this store,” Guns & Guitars general manager Christopher Sullivan told CBS News.
“It made me physically ill to think that we had interacted with him and he had committed such a tragedy.”
Stephen Paddock — who slaughtered 58 people Sunday when he opened fire on a music festival from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel — was a longtime customer of the Mesquite, Nev., store, Sullivan said.
He bought five guns from there over the past year, including a rifle last Thursday — the same day he checked into the hotel.
“I may have very well been the last person to shake hands with that man,” Sullivan told CBS.
Guns & Guitars wasn’t Paddock’s only arms dealer — another local gun store that sold weapons to the mass murderer said Tuesday its staffers are now receiving hate mail and threats.
“Since the release of the news that we were one of several stores that Paddock had purchased firearms from in the area, myself and employees have been receiving hate mail and threats, threatening phone calls and messages, and people leaving fake reviews of our company,” New Frontier Armory president David Famiglietti said in a statement on Facebook.
“We ask that people funnel their anger where it belongs instead of threatening and hurting others,” he said.