FBI, ATF seek 'straw buyer' in Overland Park Jewish Community Center shootings

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Authorities looking for middleman gun buyer in deadly Kansas City shootings

Authorities are looking for the middleman who purchased the guns used in last Sunday’s deadly suspected hate-fueled shootings near Kansas City.

Avowed racist and anti-Semite F. Glenn Miller couldn’t legally own guns because he is a felon.

Investigators believe the 73-year-old had help in obtaining the guns that he is accused of using to shoot three people outside a Jewish community center and the Village Shalom retirement home in Overland Park, the Kansas City Star said in Friday’s editions.

The Star quotes a law enforcement source as saying that investigators tracing the source of the guns think they were purchased by a straw buyer. Background checks would have tripped-up Miller, but not a go-between.

The source told the newspaper local police, the FBI and agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives are looking for the straw buyer.

This crossed my mind last week, but in the wake of the shootings and the impact it had on our community, it slipped my mind: How did an ex-felon get his hands on those guns? Obviously I'm not naïve to think it's impossible, but one has to wonder about the potential for conspiracy to commit murder, given someone had to buy the weapons for him.