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That time road rage met a 6’8” guy named Gary with a machine gun

The gun was fully automatic. The legal nightmare was manual, expensive, and slow.

Jason Weisberger
Jun 26, 2026
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The A-TEAM title screen recreation. Public domain via Wikipedia

The Gary Fadden incident is one of those American folk tales that sounds like it was generated by a gun-store campfire: road rage, a 17-mile chase, a 6’8” weapons salesman named Gary, the Ruger AC-556 made famous by The A-Team, and a jury that ultimately decided the machine-gun shooting was …

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