"NRA lobbyist, arms dealer played key role in growth of civilian market for military-style guns"

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LaPierre later told his boss, Cassidy, that he had been asked to join Blue Sky by Vos “and that he did sign some papers, but he said he did not really know anything about it,” Cassidy recalled. LaPierre said in the 1988 Post interview that he thought Blue Sky Productions was set up to organize rock concerts.

When the investigation became public, LaPierre came into Cassidy’s eighth-floor office at NRA headquarters near tears, according to Cassidy. “He told me, ‘I had nothing to do with this thing,’ ” Cassidy recalled. He added, “He did tell me he resigned from Blue Sky.”

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