[Inyo-Mono]

I bought my first .22 rifle at age 13 in 1963 at Sears with my paper route money. Walked into the store with my Dad and pointed out the rifle to the clerk I wanted to buy. Walked out of the store with a new Ithica .22 cradled in my arms.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I was divorced in 1995, and my then about to be ex-wife had a good friend on the Madison, WI police force. The divorce proceeded, and in a matter of confusion as I moved to another part of the country, the moving company, in packing my large library managed to include an untitled leather bound book. By the time I unpacked it, it was the diary of my ex-wife, and it included comments about her asking her police officer friend to interrogate the national handgun purchase database to see if I had bought a gun. I had not, and to this date have not purchased a gun in my life. I own guns that I have inherited, but none were originally purchased by me. When I read this I was outraged and inquired of the Wisconsin Department of Justice if there was an audit trail that would reveal if an inquiry had been made. Unfortunately this is state government IT and they were just implementing the database in Wisconsin at the time and there were not records to review. Had their been records that showed an inquiry was made, I would have sued the City of Madison into oblivion.