NRA safety officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show

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NRA safety officer enlisted a Sandy Hook truther to sow doubt about Parkland shooting, emails show


Wolfgang Halbig, left, has made numerous trips to Newtown, Conn., to question the official version of the school shooting that took place there in 2012. (YouTube)

By Isaac Stanley-Becker at the Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/03/28/nra-officer-enlisted-sandy-hook-truther-sow-doubt-about-parkland-shooting-emails-show/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_term=.f3340cf83c22

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But the day after the Feb. 14, 2018, shooting, an NRA training coordinator and range safety officer based at the group’s headquarters in Fairfax, Va., sprang into action behind the scenes. He sought information countering the official version of the grisly, and familiar, events, which involved a lone gunman and a legally purchased firearm.

For support, he turned to Wolfgang Halbig, a conspiracy theorist intent on proving that the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, which left 26 students and staff members dead in Newtown, Conn., was a hoax.

“You have included me with a lot of Information since the Sandy Hook Incident and I do appreciate it very much,” the NRA coordinator, Mark Richardson, wrote on Feb. 15, 2018, according to emails published by HuffPost on Wednesday. “Concerning what happened in Florida yesterday, I have been asking the question and no one else seems to be asking it.”

He pushed the deluded idea that the gunman, a former student at the school, had not acted alone, posing questions about how he had gained entry and where he had kept his equipment.


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