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 RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The Virginia Tech massacre might boost efforts to require stringent background checks of buyers at gun shows, but state lawmakers probably do not have an appetite for any broad bans, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Thursday.
At gun shows, collectors and other firearms aficionados can sell and trade weapons without checking the buyer's history. Seung-Hui Cho, who killed 32 students and faculty members before committing suicide, bought his guns legally through gun shops.
Efforts to tighten the gun-show law die perennially in Virginia's Republican-run, pro-gun General Assembly.
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