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SHOOTING BECAUSE MY NEIGHBOR
HAS DECIDED TO SELL GUNS. ))
SHOP OPENED UP ON YOUR STREET?
AT A TIME WHEN GUN LAWS ARE A
VERY TOUCHY AND HEATED SUBJECT
-- A MAN ON BUFFALO'S EAST SIDE
WANTS TO SELL FIREARMS OUT OF
HIS HOME. AS YOU CAN IMAGINE ---
SOME NEIGHBORS ARE FIRED UP.
NEWS 4'S LOU RAGUSE IS FOLLOWING
THIS STORY TONIGHT.. LOU.
THERE WERE SO FIRED UP, 30 OF
THEM ATTENDED A NEIGHBORHOOD
MEETING WE SHOWED YOU LAST WEEK.
PACKED INTO THE CITY ZONING
BOARD MEETING. AND THE BOARD
GAVE THEM THE ANSWER THEY WERE
HOPING FOR.
HOWARD SLAUGHTER SAYS HIS
EVERYONE UP.
((MY INTENTION IS TO TEACH
FIREARMS SAFETY TO MEMBERS OF
THE COMMUNITY.)) BUT HIS
PROPOSAL TO THE BUFFALO ZONING
BOARD... COMES AT A TIME WITH A
LOT OF EMOTION SURROUNDING
FIREARMS AND INVOLVES A
NEIGHBORHOOD WORKING TO REDUCE
((HOWARD WANTED PERMISSION TO
SELL GUNS OUT OF HIS HOME HERE
ALREADY TRAINS PEOPLE ON HANDGUN
SAFETY. BUT DOZENS OF PEOPLE WHO
LIVE UP AND DOWN THESE BLOCKS
SUPPORT THE IDEA.))
((I NEED TO FEEL THAT WHEN I LET
MY GRANDAUGHTER GO OUTSIDE, I
DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT
SOMEBODY SHOOTING BECAUSE MY
NEIGHBOR HAS DECIDED TO SELL
NEIGHBORHOOD.))
AND THE ZONING BOARD EASED THEIR
((ONCE YOU GOT PERMISSION TO
HAVE GUNS, IT WOULD OPEN IT UP
ASSAULT WEAPONS. ))
THEY DID NOT GIVE HIM PERMISSION
HIM TO
WORK WITH COMMON COUNCIL MEMBER
DARIUS PRIDGEN TO CONVERT AN OLD
ABANDONED BUILDING INTO A
((YOU REALLY ARE NOT PROTECTED.
YOU NEED TO GET A SECURE
LOCATION.)) WITHOUT THE ZONING
BOARD'S APPROVAL, HOWARD'S IDEA
((I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH
ILLEGAL GUN SALES, WITH THE BAD
GUY GETTING ACCESS TO FIREARMS.
WHO WANTS TO LEARN FIREARMS
SAFETY.)) HE SAYS WANTED TO SELL
GUNS JUST BECAUSE HIS CLIENTS
WHOM HE'S TAUGHT FIREARMS SAFETY
TOLD HIM THEY'D FEEL MORE
FIREARM FROM HIM. NEIGHBORS ARE
JUST HAPPY IT ISN'T GOING TO
HAPPEN.
((IN LIGHT OF ALL OF THE BABIES
WHY HE'S SO ADAMENT TO DO THIS.)
IF HOWARD SLAUGHTER HAD BEEN
GIVEN APPROVAL, HE WOULD HAVE
HAD TO FOLLOW THE SAME RULES AND
REGULATIONS AS MAJOR GUN
I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE
CONCERNED HIS HOME WOULD BECOME
A TARGET FOR GUN THIEVES, WAS
ANYONE WORRIED ABOUT THAT.
HE WASN'T PLANNING ON STORING
BROWSE THROUGH. HE WOULD HAVE
SPECIAL ORDERED THEM AND SIGN