Yeah, that seems like a stretch to me. I can't imagine they had tabs on the seller before the shooting. But who knows?If that were true, then they have him in custody. Why stay quiet about it now? They certainly were quick to point to a guy in Lubbock as the source.
Another thing I've been wondering is if the reports are true and he'd been deemed mentally unfit or whatever and thus prohibited from purchasing a firearm, then wasn't he also prohibited from owning firearms? And if so, why did the Odessa police/sheriff not confiscate them at some point? There were reports that they'd had several calls about him shooting at his home erratically, and at least one time threatened a neighbor. I know there was one report that they couldn't find his house or something, but it sounded like the neighbors had called on him several times. Do the police not have access to the same mental health info in the NICS? If not, shouldn't they? Seems like that would be something to look at before UBC's.
The sudden radio silence on this story which happened to coincide with the push for UBC's from Patrick and others on the GOP side seems awfully strange to me. Something doesn't feel right.