Bruce in West Oz
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This has been doing the rounds, but although I checked NY Times online, I couldn't find any verification. Can anyone out there corroborate the truth (or otherwise) of this??
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>From today's New York Times:
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May 5, 1999
A New Hint of Missed Signals in Littleton
By JAMES BROOKE
DENVER -- In the latest indication that law-enforcement officials
missed early warning signs about the Columbine High School gunmen,
the same sheriff's deputy who investigated their van break-in last
year also took the telephone complaint not long afterward that
they were setting off pipe bombs, a check of records shows.
[big snip]
New details emerged Tuesday about Mark E. Manes, the 22-year-old
arrested on Monday on suspicion of providing the two young gunmen
a Tec-DC9, a powerful semiautomatic pistol that was one of four
firearms they used in their assault on Columbine High, in Littleton.
Manufacture of the weapon has been barred by federal law since 1994,
although existing guns may be sold among adults -- but not to
minors -- without criminal records.
His lawyer, Robert L. Ransome, said Manes bought the weapon at a
gun show near Denver last fall and sold it in late February to one
of the youths. Ransome would not say which boy had bought the gun,
although both were then under 18.
On three occasions in the month before the Columbine killings, the
lawyer said, Manes went up "into the mountains" with the two youths
to fire automatic [sic] weapons.
"Mark did not know this was going to happen," Ransome said of the
Columbine killings. "When you are up in the woods shooting with
kids, you just think, 'Hey, they like weapons."'
Manes lives around the corner from Isaiah Shoels, a Columbine senior
who was killed in the high school. His mother, Diann Manes, is a
member of Handgun Control Inc., the nation's largest gun-control
lobby.
"She has been against guns forever," Ransome said, waving a Handgun
Control mass-mailing letter addressed to Mrs. Manes. "Mark grew up
in a house where no weapons were present."[/quote]
Bruce
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>From today's New York Times:
#####
May 5, 1999
A New Hint of Missed Signals in Littleton
By JAMES BROOKE
DENVER -- In the latest indication that law-enforcement officials
missed early warning signs about the Columbine High School gunmen,
the same sheriff's deputy who investigated their van break-in last
year also took the telephone complaint not long afterward that
they were setting off pipe bombs, a check of records shows.
[big snip]
New details emerged Tuesday about Mark E. Manes, the 22-year-old
arrested on Monday on suspicion of providing the two young gunmen
a Tec-DC9, a powerful semiautomatic pistol that was one of four
firearms they used in their assault on Columbine High, in Littleton.
Manufacture of the weapon has been barred by federal law since 1994,
although existing guns may be sold among adults -- but not to
minors -- without criminal records.
His lawyer, Robert L. Ransome, said Manes bought the weapon at a
gun show near Denver last fall and sold it in late February to one
of the youths. Ransome would not say which boy had bought the gun,
although both were then under 18.
On three occasions in the month before the Columbine killings, the
lawyer said, Manes went up "into the mountains" with the two youths
to fire automatic [sic] weapons.
"Mark did not know this was going to happen," Ransome said of the
Columbine killings. "When you are up in the woods shooting with
kids, you just think, 'Hey, they like weapons."'
Manes lives around the corner from Isaiah Shoels, a Columbine senior
who was killed in the high school. His mother, Diann Manes, is a
member of Handgun Control Inc., the nation's largest gun-control
lobby.
"She has been against guns forever," Ransome said, waving a Handgun
Control mass-mailing letter addressed to Mrs. Manes. "Mark grew up
in a house where no weapons were present."[/quote]
Bruce