One of the first gun purchase transactions I participated in was at local bodega in Brooklyn. A buddy and I went to the store after hours and made the business transaction through the Plexiglas window as if we were buying a half-gallon of milk. That gun eventually graduated into bigger guns through neighborhood commerce. Tragically, that singular experience evolved into my role as a lookout in the deaths of two innocent people on a Manhattan street in 1999, a crime that happ