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July 1st, 2003 at 10:21 pm

Gun store suit

» by Ted Frank

DC sniper Lee Malvo shoplifted the rifle he used from a Tacoma store, which is now subject to a lawsuit, as is Bushmaster Firearms, the gun manufacturer that sold the rifle to the store. (And why not the coal miners that supplied the steel manufacturers that supplied Bushmaster Firearms?). Update Sept. 25, 2004: case settles.

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