A Chicago journalist set out to prove last year just how easy it was for anyone to buy an “assault rifle.” In the process, the gun store rejected him for failing his background check — to which he concluded that the store held him to a different standard than “the American public.”
Neil Steinberg, a journalist at the Chicago Sun-Times, tried to buy a semi-automatic rifle at Maxon Shooter’s Supplies in Des Plaines, Illinois, following the Orlando nightclub massacre, to prove how easy it was to obtain an “assault rifle.”
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