The year is 2002. In Potomac, Maryland, the Attorney General of the United States is blown to bits on his front lawn, moments after retrieving the newspaper announcing his appointment. In the days to follow, multiple commuter flights from a single company in Buffalo, N.Y. explode in flight killing hundreds of passengers and crew. A respected Senator from New York is arrested for child pornography. What binds these victims? The Senator, AG and owners of the airline are among a strong coalition publicly committed to curb gun violence by an overhaul of gun laws and restructuring of the Second Amendment. Moved by Columbine and successive incidents of the slaughter of innocent children, these men, supported by the agenda of the President of the United States, are determined to finally break the death grip gun manufacturers have had on American politics. But these manufacturers are more delighted than scared, especially, the industry czar who hired the assassin responsible for all the murder and mayhem. Not only are they eliminating key players in the anti-gun movement, but, in doing so in such a violent manner, they are increasing their own sales in the process. As the Wall Street journal article in the Prologue indicates, gun sales soared after 911 as well as other incidents of terrorism
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