Shot heard ’round the world? Russell teen’s cannonball discovery raises questions about hilltown site
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RUSSELL Eighteen-year-old Zackary Cernak stumbled literally stubbed his toe on a mystery wedged under a rock on a hillside overlooking the Westfield River valley.
A senior about to graduate from Westfield Technical Academy, Cernak was working on his network of dirt bike trails, raking leaves and scraping debris away from a giant rock when he spotted something that looked too round, too unnatural, for its surroundings.
“Something seemed a little bit off,” said Cernak.
What he found is an iron ball, corroded and cracked with flakes of metal peeling from it, weighing in at a little more than 8 pounds and just more than 4 inches in diameter. Cradled in his hands, it looks like a rust-colored candlepin bowling ball.
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When James Eagan Holmes shot and killed 12 people in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater in 2012, one of the weapons he used was an AR-15-style rifle manufactured in Massachusetts.
The Bay State has banned civilians from purchasing or owning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines for decades, but companies like Smith & Wesson, headquartered in Springfield, can still build them here and sell them elsewhere.
Backed by parents who lost children to mass shootings and the Stop Handgun Violence organization, a group of Democratic lawmakers launched an effort Tuesday to change that dynamic, filing legislation that would extend the existing assault weapon ban to cover their manufacture for civilian use as well.