At the risk of duplication other comments, this decision refers to the case
of the shooting on Aug. 10, 1999 at a Jewish Community Center in GRANADA
HILLS, Calif (near LA).  The man who later pled guilty to that crime is
Buford Furrow, Jr.  Messages were exchanged in Maryland concerning this case
because Councilmember Blair Ewing of Montgomery County used it to justify
his attempts to add regulations on gun sales.  From one message we have:

1) Mr. Furrow was a convicted felon disqualified from owning guns by
condition of sentence (see Appendix F. of his Judgment on the conviction and
the Statement of Defendant, item 6,(s)) in Furrow's prior criminal record.
That record used to be available, but is no longer, at URL
http://www.apbonline.com/newscenter/breakingnews/1999/08/12/jewishdocs.html
.
2) Mr. Furrow's prior conviction was for 2nd degree assault.  The assault
took place at the Fairfax Psychiatric Hospital in Kirkland, a Seattle
suburb, where he had sought treatment.
3) The sentencing judge specifically reminded Furrow that he was prohibited
from owning Firearms as a result of his plea and Furrow signed a document
acknowledging that fact as well as agreeing to a search of his home for
firearms.
4) Mr. Furrow had been an FFL and police knew he had owned firearms in the
past, but did not search his property to secure firearms.  One corrections
official told CBS News, 'We planned to [search]; we just hadn't gotten
around to it yet.'
5) Mr. Furrow killed a postal worker using a Glock semiautomatic pistol.
Originally, that pistol was purchased by the police department in
Cosmopolis, Grays Harbor County and later sold to Furrow.
6) Mr. Furrow's gun purchases were made in Washington State almost 1000
miles distant from the location of the daycare center where he wounded 5
people and later killed the postal worker.

Phil Lee

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