
By all accounts, Nancy Lanza’s enthusiasm for guns prompted her to acquire at least four firearms, three of which were recovered inside a Connecticut school where her 20-year-old son launched an assault that left 20 children and six staffers dead.
Lanza, herself, was murdered by her son, before Adam Lanza set out for the school last Friday.
Yet beyond the horrific act of violence that has revived a heated national discussion about gun rights, Lanza’s firearms collection underscores a recurring theme in the gun debate: that new gun sales increasingly involve existing gun owners and that individual gun ownership is not necessarily expanding in the U.S.
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Posted by Libergirl
The more Obama talks about gun control the more gun sales continue to rise. So tell him to keep talking about gun control and the law abiding public at large will keep making their legal gun purchases. I can’t wait to get to the gun store today and make my purchase 🙂