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Gun Shop Owner Closes So No Kid Gets Killed With His Merch

‘JUST MY CONSCIENCE’

“I don’t want something that I’ve personally touched, that I’ve helped a client with be used on children.”

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Jon Waldman is sick of hearing about kids being slaughtered in mass shootings or just everyday crimes. So he’s doing the only thing he can: He’s closing up his gun shop, Georgia Ballistics in Duluth. “I understand I’m not the one selling the guns that are doing this but there’s a possibility that I could,” he told 11Alive. “I don’t want something that I’ve personally touched, that I’ve helped a client with be used on children.” Even before his decision to shut the business, he refused to sell 4,000 rounds of armor piercing 30-06 bullets to a customer. “This is just my conscience, and it’s more important to me than anything else.”

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