Newtown, Conn. shooting: Sandy Hook elementary school gunman Adam Lanza learned to shoot from his gun-collecting mom

Mother Nancy Lanza often took her kids target shooting, landscaper Dan Holmes said. ‘That was a passion,’ he said. ‘The whole family would go together.’ Her 20-year-old son Adam killed her with one of her own guns before using them to murder 20 children at the elementary school where she once worked.

His mother taught him the way of the gun.

Adam Lanza, the troubled nerd who turned a Connecticut school into a slaughterhouse, learned how to shoot under the watchful eye of his demanding mom Nancy.

‘They went target shooting as a family,’ landscaper Dan Holmes told The Daily News. ‘That was a passion. The whole family would go together.’
Nancy Lanza wound up being the first of her son’s 27 victims when he used one of her guns to shoot her dead.

Holmes, who often mowed the grass at the Lanza’s sprawling Newtown home, said the doomed mom was proud of her arsenal and once showed him a ‘big, beautiful rifle’ she had just purchased.

‘She was very proud of it,’ he said. ‘She loved her guns.”

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People who collect guns should start to be viewed as the same type of weirdos who collect martial arts weapons at flea markets and think they are kung fu masters because they watch Bruce Lee movies.