In the last 60 days Mr. Holmes had purchased four guns at local gun shops, Chief Oates said. And through the Internet, he bought more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition: more than 3,000 rounds for the assault rifle, 3,000 rounds of .40 caliber ammunition for the two Glocks, and 300 rounds for the 12-gauge shotgun. The guns were all bought legally, a federal law enforcement official said.

WTF? how can you not get suspicious about someone buying an AR-15 assault rifle? isn’t there any control mechanism?

life:

Tomorrow would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday (he was born July 14, 1912) and in tribute to an utterly singular American life, LIFE.com presents photographs from 1943 — none of which appeared in the pages of LIFE magazine — chronicling the guitar-strumming Oklahoma native’s rambles through wartime New York City.

See the photos on LIFE.com here.