One night, after Paulsen was stopped by a sheriff's deputy for drunk driving, a group of male members gathered at the ranch office and brought out the guns, recalled former member George Sessions.
"Junior," a 37-year old inmate from Michigan who made a living buying and selling guns, recalls traveling to gun shows around the country and purchasing thousands of dollars worth of guns.
"He was just a gun freak," recalled Mr. Kelso.
"There was a superwoman with a 24th-century gun," Mr. Graves recalled.
"I could see this guy standing there with his gun," Badger recalled.
"They said, 'Pull up your hoodie and turn around,'" to see if I had a gun, he recalled.
She often went to a local restaurant and music spot, My Place, where at beer tastings on Tuesday evenings, she sometimes talked about her gun collection, recalled an acquaintance, Dan Holmes, the owner of a landscaping company in Newtown.
"One of the students came running back and said he was showing them that he had a gun," Cluke recalled.
"The people I always rolled my eyes at were the hired guns," Inglis recalled.
"The Chechen war was going hot and heavy, so there was lots of security and guys with guns," McFaul recalled.
