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A “gun shop” that suddenly appeared in the heart of Manhattan last week only to close its doors after two days was actually an elaborate ruse by a pro-gun control group that sought to lure potential customers in order to make their anti-firearms case. States United to Prevent Gun Violence set up the “Guns with History Gun Shop” on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and pretended to offer for sale guns used in high-profile crimes. The phony sales pitches were really part of a “social experiment”—pretexts for telling customers about the dangers of gun proliferation in unconsummated transactions recorded by hidden...

New York Post HUSBAND IN FIERY KIN-SLAY HORROR By JOE McGURK and LARRY CELONA A Lower East Side man tried to massacre his family last night — killing two and wounding two others — before setting the apartment ablaze and dying in a gas explosion, police said. The violence erupted on the 21st floor of 87 Columbia St. at around 8 p.m., when the killer's wife, Chou Zhang, returned home with her 29-year-old nephew and 19-year-old son to find her husband acting deranged, police sources said.