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Print - ATF: Store that sold guns to Newtown mom, Nancy Lanza, had
violations | wtsp.com wtsp.co
ATF: Store that sold guns to Newtown mom, Nancy Lanza, had violations
12:03 PM, Apr 11, 2013
The ATF found more than 500 at the Connecticut gunviolations of federal firearms laws and regulations
store that sold two guns found at the Newtown massacre scene, some dating to 2007, but didn't yank the
store owner's federal firearms license until after the massacre.
Among the "willful violations" found from January 2010 to July 2011 at Riverview Gun Sales in East
Windsor, Conn.: A senior store employee "sold ammunition on at least two occasions" to a man "he had
reason to believe was a felon."
It's the same employee who sold the Bushmaster XM15 rifle to Nancy Lanza on March 29, 2010, that he
son, Adam Lanza, used at Sandy Hook Elementary School to kill 26 people on Dec. 14, ATF recordsshow.
Records of the violations obtained by The Journal News give no indication any of the violations involved
sales to Nancy Lanza or the Newtown massacre.
STORY: Lawyer: Gun license revocation, Newtown unrelated
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which regulates gun shops, outlined
the violations at Riverview Gun Sales in a final revocation notice issued Dec. 20 to the store's owner
David LaGuercia. ATF agents raided the shop days after the massacre.
Among the violations found during ATF inspections in 2007 and 2009 was that the store failed to "correc
and completely record" all of the required information on ATF 4473 forms, which are firearms transaction
forms. The letter also says the store failed to "properly maintain acquisition and disposition records as
required, by entering incorrect serial numbers into the records," and failed to submit reports of some
handgun sales to the ATF.
The Journal News obtained copies of ATF 4473s, the firearms transaction forms that Nancy Lanza filled
out and signed, showing she bought the Bushmaster XM15 rifle from the employee on March 29, 2010,
and a SIG Sauer 9mm pistol on March 16, 2011 at the same store.
It's unclear whether ATF investigators came across the record of her purchasing the Bushmaster when
they reviewed at least one out of every four ATF 4473s for a 16-month period from August 13, 2009, to
Jan. 5, 2011. Nothing on that record would have been cause for alarm.
In the revocation notice, the ATF said LaGuercia knew how to do things properly and received "11
separate instances of instruction from ATF regarding how to comply with federal firearms laws and
regulations" between September 2004 and January 2010.
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"Although the licensee committed over 500 violations, and thus clearly did many things incorrectly, the
licensee also successfully completed hundreds of transactions where all the requirements were complet
correctly," the letter says. "This conclusively demonstrates that the licensee knew how to do things the
right way, and was capable of getting things right when appropriate attention and effort were devoted to
the job, but simply did not focus sufficient attention to ensure that he complied with the GCA (Gun Contro
Act) each time he sold a firearm."
LaGuercia's lawyer Robert Altchiler, who began representing LaGuercia in late January, suggested that
revocation wasn't being considered prior to the Newtown massacre and an incident involving Jordan
Marsh, a Connecticut man accused of stealing a rifle from the store counter on Dec. 11, three days befo
the massacre.
"I think that it was a panicked public relations response to things that happened in December between
Newtown and Jordan Marsh,' Altchiler told The Journal News. "I do not think for a second that they
thought my client posed a danger to the community that would warrant an emergency revocation like tha
"I believe that had they allowed the dust to settle rather than rushing to the revocation, that Riverview
would have been able to resume negotiations and conversations with the ATF and come to a settlement
more consistent with the conversations that were taking place in August 2012 during the revocation
hearing, rather than rush into this extreme and draconian result that up until December 2012 apparently
never ever had been contemplated or considered by the ATF."
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