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Gun Sale Touted in Prominent Plain Dealer Cover Ad

By Sam Allard on Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:19 pm

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Gun Sale Touted in Prominent Plain Dealer Cover Ad

Twitter: @RussWKYC

Less than two weeks removed from a Las Vegas mass shooting that left more than 50 dead and 500 wounded — the deadliest in modern U.S. history, we're told — the Cleveland Plain Dealer featured a prominent cover advertisement promoting a "Ruger Days" sale at the Middleburg Heights location of Fin Feather Fur.

Three handguns, all of them Rugers, are visible above the fold on Wednesday's print issue.

At least one woman, who was in Las Vegas during the shooting, took offense:

A woman who was in Las Vegas says the Plain Dealer ad was poorly timed...@wkyc pic.twitter.com/flfMd2UmvB
— Jasmine Monroe (@MONROEWKYC) October 11, 2017

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Sam Allard is the Senior Writer at Scene, in which capacity he covers politics and power and writes about movies when time permits. He's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and the NEOMFA at Cleveland State. Prior to joining Scene, he was encamped in Sarajevo, Bosnia, on an...

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