NJSleuth91
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It could be possible KM bought it legally. But how would gun stores verify the sale of a specific gun if they don’t have the serial numbers. Even if it was bought and sold from someone else at a legit store and then sold privately later on the store would need the serial to track it. A bill of sale or PAL check in document/records control seems like a big ask to dig even two years worth to find a name. Plus it could be a store in another city for all we know. But computer systems at these retailers can probably pull up serial numbers pretty easy.
Would it have been from a gun store though? Or do you think it would have been from an individual seller? It's possible the police are asking around gun stores in the area with the serial numbers but just not releasing them publicly. I'm sure they have asked around all the local stores. Are there gun shows in Canada?
I have to say, I've thought quite a bit about what it means that Kam shot Bryer. I mean, it seems this was the moment Bryer had been waiting for, when he finally gets to do this thing he has long fantasized about, and then he doesn't do it. What's up with that? Was he unable to and asked for assistance? Or did Kam surprise him?
I guess we will never know.
It sounds from the report like they described their plan to do this on one of the videos (probably video #4). I wonder if they gave a reason for it in that video (probably not because when did they ever give a reason for anything). "Based on the autopsy findings, the firearms lab report, analysis of the scene and the content of the videos it is believed that McLeod shot Schmegelsky before shooting himself in a suicide pact."
As for why...well I actually predicted back when their bodies were found that it would turn out Kam shot Bryer in an assisted suicide. I'm still amazed that I predicted that! My reasoning for it at the time was that Bryer seemed kind of nervous and twitchy in the surveillance footage as well as the witness accounts, and I thought he was probably kind of a nervous, twitchy person in general. So I just had sort of an intuition that when it came down to it, for all his talk and Instagram postings about it, he might not be able to actually go through with it himself.
Also, since he was the more outwardly suicidal of the two, it's possible he researched gunshot suicides before and realized they can go wrong. As I said, I also suspect these guys read up on Columbine at some point. Both Columbine shooters kind of messed up their suicides...Eric apparently blew half his head off, whereas Dylan I guess flinched at the last moment or something and ended up choking to death on his own blood (what a cheerful topic of discussion....)
I also think this was sort of the ultimate expression of their codependency and loyalty to each other. Kam probably knew Bryer was suicidal for years and it's possible he even saw it as sort of a mercy killing in a way, like finally putting Bryer out of his misery. It was like one last act of friendship. That may seem messed up to a non-suicidal person (in fact some people were more shocked that Kam killed Bryer than that both of them killed innocent people). But to a suicidal person, it makes total sense and they would see it as a positive thing.
Either way I think Bryer had this specific fantasy of Kam being the one to kill him for a long time, like maybe even before they decided to go on a killing spree.