Texas Rep Praises Gun Dealer for Thwarting Ft. Hood Attack

Texas Rep. John Carter is praising the gun dealer who sold an AWOL soldier firearms for his part in preventing another attack on Fort Hood.

"Thanks to quick action by a Texas gun dealer in alerting local police to a suspicious character," Carter says in a news release, "we may well have averted a repeat of the tragic 2009 radical Islamic terror attack on our nation's largest military installation."

Carter, a Republican, says initial information shows a dealer at the store Guns Galore called Kileen police after a "suspicious male" bought a semi-automatic magazine, shotgun ammunition and gunpowder. Guns Galore also sold alleged shooter Major Nidal Hasan supplies ahead of the November 5, 2009 attack on Ft. Hood where more than a dozen were killed.

"We now have an example of what works to prevent these type attacks," Carter, a former judge, said. "[A]s the coming days reveal more details about this attempt, we can determine better ways to thwart similar efforts in the future."