Deadly shooting on Oregon college campus

Where did you hear that bullshit? Why do you continue to make things up about the US? I guess that means the UK is the home of the muscle car?

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Eventually, one of the dealers forced the carjacker at gunpoint to free
Golden and a group of drug dealers persuaded Golden to drive them to a
hotel, where they told him about 1 a.m. that he could go, police said.

Best Theft Deterrent – Let’s face it, in the US, unless you’re Nicholas Cage, your average car thief can’t drive a stick. A good example is this incident in which some lousy car thieves jump into a Toyota Tercel and after realizing the car had a standard transmission they made the owner drive – Of course they got caught. A rather humorous judge recommends car thieves should learn to drive stick. So there you have it. A stick shift in your car might be more effective than an alarm system, “The Club”, or any of the dozen other car theft deterrent devices.

Written by an American petrolhead about the merits of manual transmission.

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Best Theft Deterrent – Let’s face it, in the US, unless you’re Nicholas Cage, your average car thief can’t drive a stick. A good example is this incident in which some lousy car thieves jump into a Toyota Tercel and after realizing the car had a standard transmission they made the owner drive – Of course they got caught. A rather humorous judge recommends car thieves should learn to drive stick. So there you have it. A stick shift in your car might be more effective than an alarm system, “The Club”, or any of the dozen other car theft deterrent devices.

http://rallyways.com/4678/should-i-learn-to-drive-a-stick-shift-car/

Deadly shooting on Oregon college campus

A US gun shop has been ordered to pay nearly $6m (£3.9m) in compensation to two police officers severely wounded by a weapon illegally bought there.

A Milwaukee jury found that Badger Guns should have realised that a man buying a firearm in 2009 intended to pass it on to the teenager at his side.

The teenager went on to shoot the two officers in the face when they stopped him riding his bike on the pavement.

Officials said over 500 firearms used in crimes had been traced to the store.

Officers Bryan Norberg and Graham Kunisch sued Badger Guns for negligence after teenager Julius Burton was able to get hold of the Taurus .40-calibre handgun by giving $40 to another man, a so-called "straw buyer", to buy it at the store in West Milwaukee.

In the confrontation with Burton, a bullet shattered eight of Mr Norberg's teeth, blew through his cheek and lodged into his shoulder. Mr Kunisch was shot several times. He lost an eye and part of the frontal lobe of his brain and was forced to retire.

Lawyers for store owner Adam Allan claimed he could not be held responsible for the sale and said the sales clerk had been deceived rather than negligent.

But jurors ordered the store to pay Norberg $1.5m and Kunisch $3.6m, along with punitive damages of $730,000.

The officers' lawyer said his clients were "very relieved", but said he anticipated years of appeals.

Burton is serving an 80-year sentence for the attack, while the man who bought the gun for him was jailed for two years.

Officials have described Badger Guns - which has since reopened under a new name, Brew City Shooters Supply, but the same ownership - as the number one crime dealer in America after more than 500 firearms recovered from crime scenes were traced back to it.

MILWAUKEE — At 18, Julius Burton could not legally buy a gun. So he paid a 21-year-old acquaintance $40 to accompany him to Badger Guns, just outside the city limits here, and be the official buyer of a weapon.

Mr. Burton pointed to a Taurus semiautomatic pistol and said, “That’s the one I want,” according to surveillance video from that day in 2009 and trial testimony. Then he helped his friend, who was struggling to fill out a two-page form. A hovering store clerk helped as well, showing the friend how to correct mistakes and ensure he was listed as the buyer.

A month later, on June 9, 2009, Mr. Burton shot two police officers with the Taurus. One lost an eye and was left with brain damage; the other was seriously wounded in the face.

It was a classic straw purchase, an important way guns enter the underground market, though an unusually well-documented one because of the video and the quick identification of the true buyer.

stop trying to confuse the tragedy by blaming the victims.

Normal people don't think like that.

Likely lesson should be not to sell to buyers when it is clear the buyer is buying from an under aged person standing right next to him, talking about the gun he wanted. The lesson should not be to be more clever in covering it up. Geez.

Badger Guns, in the village of West Milwaukee, had a long history of legal violations, official warnings and machinations to prevent the revocation of its firearms license, as The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has described in a series of reports. A second lawsuit against the store is pending in Milwaukee, also involving a weapon that was used to shoot police officers.

At the time of the sale to Mr. Burton, the store was owned by Mr. Allan, a defendant in the lawsuit. Over the years, the store changed its name and formal ownership — transforming in 2007, for example, to Badger Guns, owned by Mr. Allan, from Badger Outdoors, owned by Mr. Allan’s father and a partner.

On the streets of Milwaukee, Mr. Burton said in testimony from prison, where he is serving 80 years for attempted murder, “everyone knew” Badger was the place to get a gun. In 2011, two years after the sale to Mr. Burton, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rescinded Badger’s license.

From what I understand, there have been problems with that store owner in the past.

At the time of the sale to Mr. Burton, the store was owned by Mr. Allan, a defendant in the lawsuit. Over the years, the store changed its name and formal ownership — transforming in 2007, for example, to Badger Guns, owned by Mr. Allan, from Badger Outdoors, owned by Mr. Allan’s father and a partner.


On the streets of Milwaukee, Mr. Burton said in testimony from prison, where he is serving 80 years for attempted murder, “everyone knew” Badger was the place to get a gun. In 2011, two years after the sale to Mr. Burton, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives rescinded Badger’s license.


In 2012, a brother of Mr. Allan, Mike Allan, reopened the store as Brew City Shooter’s Supply, initially featuring a firing range. The store later received a license to sell weapons. The new owner has said that to avoid problem sales, he will sell guns only to people who take out memberships in the range for $25 and demonstrate knowledge of gun safety.

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stop trying to confuse the tragedy by blaming the victims.

That YOU would try to confuse the tragedy by claiming anyone is 'blaming the victims' is both ironic and disgusting.