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Gander Mountain sued over gun used in '12 rampage
pioneer press ^ | 5-21-14 | ap

Posted on 05/21/2014 5:39:05 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

Gander Mountain, which sold a weapon used in a Christmas Eve shooting that left two Rochester, N.Y.-area volunteer firefighters dead, is being sued on behalf of the victims.

The semi-automatic rifle used by William Spengler Jr. on Dec. 24, 2012, to kill two West Webster firefighters and wound two others was purchased at a Gander Mountain store by his neighbor Dawn Nguyen. Spengler couldn't buy the gun because he was a felon.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence says it filed a lawsuit Tuesday on behalf of the four victims claiming that St. Paul-based Gander Mountain should have realized Nguyen was making a "straw purchase" for Spengler, who accompanied her into the store.

A spokesman for Gander Mountain said the company hasn't seen the lawsuit.

Nguyen and Spengler's estate also are named in the lawsuit.

On Monday, Nguyen, 25, sentenced to up to four years in prison for lying on forms when she bought the guns. She still faces federal charges for illegally purchasing the firearms and selling them to a known felon. A hearing on motions in that case is scheduled for Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: banglist; gander; nguyen; spengler
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To: catman67

Absolutely


21 posted on 05/21/2014 6:41:04 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: catman67

No. We need Tighter Pays!


22 posted on 05/21/2014 6:42:25 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: Java4Jay
Might as well sue the phone company for providing access for the 911 call

....and GM for his red GMC truck that transported him from the gun store to the crime scene. I mean, the car dealership should have known that they were selling an item to facilitate a crime!

23 posted on 05/21/2014 6:46:17 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!! (Keeper of the Sick Individuals pinglist))
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To: TurboZamboni

Brady will use its deep pockets to bury this guy - and even create a precident.


24 posted on 05/21/2014 6:46:52 AM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: SoothingDave

Looser slots.


25 posted on 05/21/2014 6:51:30 AM PDT by Lisbon1940
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To: TurboZamboni

Being sued for being a victim of a crime?


26 posted on 05/21/2014 7:41:21 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: TurboZamboni
A look at some of the pictures of the murderer and you see some of the burning psycho savagery in his face. The story:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Webster,_New_York_shooting

Part of his suicide note: "I still have to get ready to see how much of the neighborhood I can burn down, and do what I like doing best, killing people."

Mugshot before going to prison for murdering his grandmother with a hammer.

After 18 years in prison.

His straw buyer accomplice Dawn Nguyen.


27 posted on 05/21/2014 8:22:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: hal ogen

...and I would ask is it really Mrs Brady or the clucks on the left that got her as the victim figure head to stand out front since her husband cannot. It didn’t hurt that she apparently was left leaning to start with but just for clarity how much is coming from her brain and how much from the leftists running the show.


28 posted on 05/21/2014 10:23:20 AM PDT by wita
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To: catman67

We got some form of that here in Texas and it cut way down on the frivolous and fishing lawsuits.


29 posted on 05/21/2014 10:31:20 AM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Since there are many more murders committed with hammers than guns, has anyone sued the hammer manufacturers yet?

5.56mm

30 posted on 05/21/2014 10:33:53 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: M Kehoe

Please ,Hammer, don’t hurt ‘em !


31 posted on 05/21/2014 11:21:25 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: NFHale

> “Wow... good thing he didn’t use a lever gun... that would have become a “High-capacity Repeating Assault Rifle”...”

Yea, the MSN will label them “load on Sunday and shoot all week” guns. Or, “horizontal shot towers.” Or something even better.


32 posted on 05/22/2014 9:33:00 AM PDT by jim_trent
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To: jim_trent

Then they’d be using “rayyyyyyyyyyyyyycist” code words...

The Confederate troopers who came up against northern boys armed with Henry repeaters called it “that Damned Yankee Gun you Load one Sunday and all week long!”.

Gee... wouldn’t that then make the MSM .... gasp.... “RAYYYCIST” for using “Confederate Speak”??? Or would it be “White Privilge” speak...? I’m so confused!

After all, that’s THEIR “logic”, right???


33 posted on 05/22/2014 9:41:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NonValueAdded

Clare Voyant would be picking up the white courtesy phone before the intercom announcement.


34 posted on 05/23/2014 9:13:05 PM PDT by Redcitizen (When a zombie apocalypse starts, Chuck Norris doesn't try to survive. The zombies do.)
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