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Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Twenty Years Since a Nightmare: Stockton, CA School Shooting of 35 Led to Strengthening of Gun Laws
January 31st, 2009
Twenty years ago this Saturday in Stockton, a close-knit farm city in the heart of California's Central Valley, a man with a history of arrests, mental illness and problems with alcohol shot and killed five students and wounded twenty-nine others along with a teacher at Cleveland Elementary School. The shooter, Patrick Purdy, spray-fired 106 rounds of ammunition in about two minutes using an AK-47 assault rifle equipped with a 75-round ammunition drum. The tragic shooting in 1989 spurred advocates and legislators in California into action. The California Legislature quickly passed the nation's first ban on assault weapons. And it was the beginning of...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-31)
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