Gander Mountain Sued Based on NSSF’s “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy” Campaign

By Robert Farago

“They made an odd pair,” our friends at Michael Bloomberg’s thetrace.org report, “the scruffy 61-year-old William Spengler and his 22-year-old neighbor, Dawn Nguyen, when they went to browse long guns at a Gander Mountain sporting goods store near Rochester, New York. In a scene later described in court papers, Spengler — a convicted felon who was prohibited from purchasing a firearm — spoke for the two when a clerk asked if they needed help . . .

When it was time to close the deal on an AR-15 rifle and a pistol-grip shotgun, it was Nguyen who stepped forward to apply for a background check and hand over more than $1,400 in cash, without buying ammunition or bothering to ask questions about the guns. When the sale was complete, Spengler scooped the weapons off the counter and they left the store.

Later, Spengler lured firefighters to his home and shot and killed two of them, wounding two others, before killing himself. What’s wrong with this picture?

According to The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence lawyers suing Gander Mountain, the store didn’t follow the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s “Don’t Lie for the Other Guy” retailers’ guidelines. …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns