Investigators say the Lewiston mass shooting suspect tried to get a suppressor, also called a silencer, but was stopped from doing so in August.
that the suspect tried to buy a so-called silencer but was denied because of a mental health question just a few months before the mass shooting.
The Lewiston mass shooting suspect went to Coastal Defense Firearms on Aug. 5, according to the New York Times. “This guy was a firearms expert, the shooter. And he knew what he was doing. And he was obviously trying to acquire a suppressor for something,” University of New Haven Criminal Justice Associate Professor Mike Lawlor said.
“It would then have been a violation of federal law for that dealer to transfer a suppressor to him,” Lawlor said.
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