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SpartanDem

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1. She was collector/target shooter

Reply to hedgehog (Original post)

Sat Dec 15, 2012, 02:49 PM

Dec 2012

The two semiautomatic pisols and .223-caliber Bushmaster rifle Lanza used in the shooting were registered to his mother, whom several witnesses identified as an avid gun collector. She apparently taught her kids how to shoot the guns. The owner of a landscaping business who recently decorated her yard for Christmas tells Reuters she once showed him a “really nice, high-end rifle” that she purchased. “She said she would often go target shooting with her kids

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/12/15/nancy_lanza_school_teacher_sandy_hook_elementary_shooting.html

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Why did the gunman's mother own guns? [View all] hedgehog Dec 2012 OP

She was collector/target shooter SpartanDem Dec 2012 #1

Reported so is the father ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #8

Alex Witt said something about her being sufrommich Dec 2012 #2

For the myriad of reasons people own guns nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #3

I believe she could have been a survivalist, at least one article I read stated that she was. She juajen Dec 2012 #4

The currently reported firearms do not add up to survivalist or prepper ProgressiveProfessor Dec 2012 #7

Why wouldn't she? Edweird Dec 2012 #5

maybe cause she knew her son was a psycho leftyohiolib Dec 2012 #6

And wanted to make sure he was Armed? quakerboy Dec 2012 #9