About the gun... It could be WHs brother/nephews gun and be legally owned. Ammo just left at the hotel room.
It's a lot of Ammo to just be carrying around, but they could have been planning some vigilante justice.
If it was one of my kids... I would rather not even think about it.
Just keeping an open mind... Not what I feel in my heart at all
I'm not speculating on why he had the ammo, but that is not "a lot of ammo".
Regular 9mm FMJ is commonly sold in 50 and 100 round boxes at the walmart and pretty much any gun shop. Some more expensive hollow point ammo is sold in smaller packages. I can burn through 200 rounds in an hour or two at the range.
I know this guy shouldn't even have a single round, but I'm a bit sensitive to the media, and people in general blowing things out of proportion. I can't count the number of times I've seen the media call 10 firearms and 1000 rounds of ammo "an arsenal". If you live in VA, you've probably got a neighbor with much more than that, and completely legal.