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Monday is the eighth anniversary of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut
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If we don’t remember the victims, we will never act to prevent more senseless gun violence. We can make a difference if we demand the changes that lead to safer communities.
People should be safe from gun violence when they go about their daily business. Children should be safe from gun violence wherever they are. We can decrease the number of gun homicides and suicides through common-sense precautions and legislation.
Eight years ago Monday, Dec. 14, we were rocked with the news that a troubled young man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and fired 154 bullets in less than five minutes, killing 20 children and six teachers. That one event seemed to set off a series of school shootings.
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On this date in Maine history: Dec. 10
By Joseph Owen
Richard Dyke, founder of Bushmaster rifles, photographed in 2011. Staff photo by John Ewing
Dec. 10, 2010: Bushmaster Firearms International announces it plans to close its assembly plant in Windham, effective the following March 31.
Founded in 1973, the company employs 73 workers in Maine at the time of the announcement.
Bushmaster’s parent company, North Carolina-based Freedom Group Inc., says in a news release that the Windham staff will get comprehensive severance packages and help finding new jobs. The parent organization will keep the Bushmaster name and transfer manufacturing to plants elsewhere.
The following June, former Bushmaster owner Richard Dyke and other investors announce a plan to reopen the Windham site and manufacture rifles there under the name Windham Weaponry. Their enterprise expects to hire back about half of the 73 people who lost their jobs in the closure.