Why gun owners should be legally accountable for any gun they own.
Too_Many_Tools
24.03.2010 - 20:12
24.03.2010 - 20:12
This is a great example of why any gun owner should be legally
acountable for any gun registered to them.
After a few irresponsible gun owners serve hard time for letting their
guns commit crimes, the real cost of owning a gun will be understood.
TMT
Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago
By DESIREE HUNTER, Associated Press Writer Desiree Hunter, Associated
Press Writer
Tue Mar 23, 6:14 pm ET
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. 6 The gun used to kill three people during a faculty
meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two
decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an
investigator testified Tuesday.
The investigator told a judge that an acquaintance bought the gun in
New Hampshire for Amy Bishop's husband to skirt a waiting period where
the couple lived in Massachusetts.
Huntsville police investigator Charlie Gray also testified that Bishop
denied to officers that she had anything to do with the rampage at a
biology department faculty meeting Feb. 12, which also wounded three
others.
Bishop, making her first court appearance, was denied bond during a
brief hearing. The capital murder case against her was sent to a grand
jury, which is not expected to hear it for several months.
Looking gaunt and wearing a red jail jump suit, the handcuffed Bishop
made no comment.
The 45-year-old Harvard-educated biologist was arrested shortly after
the shooting. The gun was found in a bathroom trash can a floor below
the faculty conference room, with Bishop's bloodied red-and-black
plaid coat on top of it, according to testimony.
During the hearing, Gray testified that the gun used in the shooting
was purchased in 1989 for Bishop's husband, James Anderson, by a man
in New Hampshire identified as Donald Proulx. He said Proulx told
federal agents that he believed he purchased it in Troy, N.H.
Gray said Proulx told federal agents Anderson, who was living in
Massachusetts, asked him to buy the gun because Anderson was having
problems with a neighbor and New Hampshire didn't have a waiting
period for gun purchases.
Anderson was not in the courtroom for the hearing. He previously told
The Associated Press that he knew about the gun and joined Bishop in
target practice, but didn't know where his wife got the firearm.
Anderson declined to comment when reached at the family's home Tuesday
afternoon.
A message left on what was believed to be Proulx's Facebook account
wasn't immediately returned.
Proulx's father, Donald Proulx Sr., said his son lives in Florida but
he doesn't know where or how to reach him. He told the AP on Tuesday
that he met Bishop's husband "a couple of times, that's it. I have no
relationship with him."
Gray testified that Bishop, during a taped interview that lasted more
than two hours, was not agitated but "seemed calm, she seemed very
intelligent" as she denied anything to do with the shooting.
"She said it was no way she was there, no way it happened. 'I wasn't
there.' That kept being a recurring thing throughout the interview,"
Gray said.
Bishop's attorney has said that that she doesn't remember the
shootings, and she herself said the shootings "didn't happen" in her
only public comments since the killings.
"What about the people who died?" a reporter asked as she was led to a
police car hours after the killings.
"There's no way. They're still alive," she responded.
Bishop, wearing white socks and flip-flops with a thick chain around
both ankles, appeared to be paying attention to the proceedings
Tuesday but was mostly expressionless. She at times fidgeted with her
hands and tapped her leg. Sometimes she whispered answers to questions
from her attorney, Roy Miller.
Bishop is charged with capital murder, which can bring the death
penalty if she's convicted, although prosecutors have not made a
decision on whether they will seek a death penalty.
Miller has said he will argue that Bishop was insane. He has told
reporters she has shown signs of being unable to relate to reality.
District Judge Ruth Ann Hall issued a gag order last week for the
prosecution, defense and law enforcement personnel, barring them from
talking to the media. Hall says the order will ensure a fair trial.
At the time of the shooting, Bishop was in her last semester of
teaching at UAH, which had denied her the job protections of tenure.
Colleagues said she was angry over the tenure decision. The university
fired her after the rampage.
Gray testified that Anderson told police his wife "had been a little
depressed over tenure" but appeared normal on the day of the
shooting.
Gray's testimony echoed the accounts given by faculty members who
survived the sudden gunfire. They had said that the shooting stopped
and biochemistry professor Debra Moriarity scrambled toward Bishop,
who attempted to shoot her but without the gun going off. With Bishop
out of the room, survivors barricaded the door.
Gray said the gun recovered in the bathroom trash can had jammed with
seven live rounds in it. A black satchel that belonged to Bishop was
also found in the conference room, containing another 15-round
magazine, he said.
Bishop's arrest after the Alabama shooting led to revelations about
her role in other cases, including shooting her 18-year-old brother to
death in the family's suburban Boston home in 1986. That death was
ruled an accident at the time and she was not charged, but authorities
in Massachusetts have ordered an inquest into the case.
Bishop and her husband were also questioned in the 1993 mailing of a
pipe bomb to a medical researcher who had given her a negative job
review. They were never charged, but the U.S. attorney in Boston is
reviewing the matter.
___
Associated Press writer Lynne Tuohy in Concord, N.H., contributed to
this report.
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Man who bought gun used in Ala. rampage won't talk
LAKELAND, Fla. 6 A man who police say bought a gun more than 20 years
ago that was used last month in a fatal Alabama university rampage is
declining to comment on his role.
Donald Proulx (proo) e-mailed The Associated Press on Wednesday to say
he had been told not to discuss the matter. He referred questions to
law enforcement.
A police investigator told an Alabama court Tuesday that the gun was
bought by Proulx in New Hampshire in 1989 for the husband of the woman
charged in the Alabama shooting. The investigator said the husband,
James Anderson, wanted the gun because of problems with a neighbor.
Former professor Amy Bishop is charged with capital murder in the
shooting at the University of Alabama Huntsville that left three
people dead and three wounded.
acountable for any gun registered to them.
After a few irresponsible gun owners serve hard time for letting their
guns commit crimes, the real cost of owning a gun will be understood.
TMT
Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago
By DESIREE HUNTER, Associated Press Writer Desiree Hunter, Associated
Press Writer
Tue Mar 23, 6:14 pm ET
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. 6 The gun used to kill three people during a faculty
meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two
decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an
investigator testified Tuesday.
The investigator told a judge that an acquaintance bought the gun in
New Hampshire for Amy Bishop's husband to skirt a waiting period where
the couple lived in Massachusetts.
Huntsville police investigator Charlie Gray also testified that Bishop
denied to officers that she had anything to do with the rampage at a
biology department faculty meeting Feb. 12, which also wounded three
others.
Bishop, making her first court appearance, was denied bond during a
brief hearing. The capital murder case against her was sent to a grand
jury, which is not expected to hear it for several months.
Looking gaunt and wearing a red jail jump suit, the handcuffed Bishop
made no comment.
The 45-year-old Harvard-educated biologist was arrested shortly after
the shooting. The gun was found in a bathroom trash can a floor below
the faculty conference room, with Bishop's bloodied red-and-black
plaid coat on top of it, according to testimony.
During the hearing, Gray testified that the gun used in the shooting
was purchased in 1989 for Bishop's husband, James Anderson, by a man
in New Hampshire identified as Donald Proulx. He said Proulx told
federal agents that he believed he purchased it in Troy, N.H.
Gray said Proulx told federal agents Anderson, who was living in
Massachusetts, asked him to buy the gun because Anderson was having
problems with a neighbor and New Hampshire didn't have a waiting
period for gun purchases.
Anderson was not in the courtroom for the hearing. He previously told
The Associated Press that he knew about the gun and joined Bishop in
target practice, but didn't know where his wife got the firearm.
Anderson declined to comment when reached at the family's home Tuesday
afternoon.
A message left on what was believed to be Proulx's Facebook account
wasn't immediately returned.
Proulx's father, Donald Proulx Sr., said his son lives in Florida but
he doesn't know where or how to reach him. He told the AP on Tuesday
that he met Bishop's husband "a couple of times, that's it. I have no
relationship with him."
Gray testified that Bishop, during a taped interview that lasted more
than two hours, was not agitated but "seemed calm, she seemed very
intelligent" as she denied anything to do with the shooting.
"She said it was no way she was there, no way it happened. 'I wasn't
there.' That kept being a recurring thing throughout the interview,"
Gray said.
Bishop's attorney has said that that she doesn't remember the
shootings, and she herself said the shootings "didn't happen" in her
only public comments since the killings.
"What about the people who died?" a reporter asked as she was led to a
police car hours after the killings.
"There's no way. They're still alive," she responded.
Bishop, wearing white socks and flip-flops with a thick chain around
both ankles, appeared to be paying attention to the proceedings
Tuesday but was mostly expressionless. She at times fidgeted with her
hands and tapped her leg. Sometimes she whispered answers to questions
from her attorney, Roy Miller.
Bishop is charged with capital murder, which can bring the death
penalty if she's convicted, although prosecutors have not made a
decision on whether they will seek a death penalty.
Miller has said he will argue that Bishop was insane. He has told
reporters she has shown signs of being unable to relate to reality.
District Judge Ruth Ann Hall issued a gag order last week for the
prosecution, defense and law enforcement personnel, barring them from
talking to the media. Hall says the order will ensure a fair trial.
At the time of the shooting, Bishop was in her last semester of
teaching at UAH, which had denied her the job protections of tenure.
Colleagues said she was angry over the tenure decision. The university
fired her after the rampage.
Gray testified that Anderson told police his wife "had been a little
depressed over tenure" but appeared normal on the day of the
shooting.
Gray's testimony echoed the accounts given by faculty members who
survived the sudden gunfire. They had said that the shooting stopped
and biochemistry professor Debra Moriarity scrambled toward Bishop,
who attempted to shoot her but without the gun going off. With Bishop
out of the room, survivors barricaded the door.
Gray said the gun recovered in the bathroom trash can had jammed with
seven live rounds in it. A black satchel that belonged to Bishop was
also found in the conference room, containing another 15-round
magazine, he said.
Bishop's arrest after the Alabama shooting led to revelations about
her role in other cases, including shooting her 18-year-old brother to
death in the family's suburban Boston home in 1986. That death was
ruled an accident at the time and she was not charged, but authorities
in Massachusetts have ordered an inquest into the case.
Bishop and her husband were also questioned in the 1993 mailing of a
pipe bomb to a medical researcher who had given her a negative job
review. They were never charged, but the U.S. attorney in Boston is
reviewing the matter.
___
Associated Press writer Lynne Tuohy in Concord, N.H., contributed to
this report.
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Man who bought gun used in Ala. rampage won't talk
LAKELAND, Fla. 6 A man who police say bought a gun more than 20 years
ago that was used last month in a fatal Alabama university rampage is
declining to comment on his role.
Donald Proulx (proo) e-mailed The Associated Press on Wednesday to say
he had been told not to discuss the matter. He referred questions to
law enforcement.
A police investigator told an Alabama court Tuesday that the gun was
bought by Proulx in New Hampshire in 1989 for the husband of the woman
charged in the Alabama shooting. The investigator said the husband,
James Anderson, wanted the gun because of problems with a neighbor.
Former professor Amy Bishop is charged with capital murder in the
shooting at the University of Alabama Huntsville that left three
people dead and three wounded.
ozarkheart
24.03.2010 - 21:46
24.03.2010 - 21:46
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:12:36 -0700 (PDT), Too_Many_Tools
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