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A Gun Show in the Heartland [ January 27, 2008]

A Gun Show in the Heartland [ January 27, 2008]

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John Mendelssohn
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A Gun Show in the Heartland [ January 27, 2008]
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So there I was at a gun show in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with my new friend Chris, the restauranteur, and his friend Catfish, apparently Madison’s most venerated white bluesman, and the weirdest thing of 2008 so far happened: I saw someone I knew.

I’d driven. Chris didn’t think three of us would be comfortable in his Mini, even though Catfish, who told us a…

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