How the nation’s most notorious crime-gun store cleaned up its act

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WEST MILWAUKEE, WIS. — Badger Guns, an unassuming gun shop set amid the strip malls and industrial sites just south of the ballpark where the Milwaukee Brewers play, was once America’s most notorious purveyor of guns used to commit crimes.

The place peddled 3,000 guns a year and didn’t care much about who bought them, police and prosecutors say. In one two-year period, six Milwaukee police officers were shot and wounded with weapons purchased at Badger Guns.

“Everybody knew about . . . Badgers,” testified Julius Burton, who was 18 when he persuaded a 21-year-old friend to buy him the gun he used to shoot two Milwaukee police officers in 2009. Burton is serving 80 years in prison. “This is where a lot of people go, so I was like, ‘I’ll go there.’ ”

Last week, a jury found the store liable for Burton’s actions and awarded the grievously wounded officers, Bryan Norberg and Graham Kunisch, nearly $6 million. The landmark ruling is the first of its kind against a gun store, and it has raised alarms throughout the firearms industry. The case is on appeal, but several other lawsuits are in the works, including one against Badger Guns by two other Milwaukee police officers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-the-nations-most-notorious-crime-gun-store-cleaned-up-its-act/2015/10/17/9ff3c52e-74ea-11e5-8248-98e0f5a2e830_story.html

[ManiacJoe]

1. A good start.

Now if the prosecutors would go after the straw purchasers on a regular basis....