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Stormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy\u2019s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her father was a construction worker. They couldn\u2019t afford child care, so Stormy\u2019s father took her with him to job sites. \u201cMy dad would hide me in the trucks,\u201d Stormy told me. She spent a lot of time alone. \u201cI was strange,\u201d she said. \u201cI liked rocks. I was very spiritual. I talked to animals. I talked a lot to God.\u201d Every Sunday, her entire extended family attended church, and Stormy sang in the choir. Like many men in Frederick County, Maryland, where the family lived, Stormy\u2019s father owned guns and went hunting. Her mother had a firearm, too, and occasionally took Stormy target shooting. When Stormy finished high school, she began commuting to a job at an insurance company in Washington, D.C. She started in human resources, then became a legal secretary there. She wore her curly brown hair down to her shoulders, with bangs that framed her blue eyes.<\/p>\n

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In her early twenties, she met Barry Morse, who was seven years older. He was Italian and Jewish, tall and handsome, clever and enterprising. He had skipped college and now worked for his father, who owned a McDonald\u2019s franchise. Morse was married, but the relationship was breaking up. \u201cAs soon as I met him, a voice in my head said, \u2018You will marry him,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Stormy told me. \u201cThe voice of God. I know that sounds weird, but it was instant.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Morse owned dozens of guns, and when he handled money for the family business he carried a firearm, even though he didn\u2019t have a permit to do so. On Christmas Eve in 1984, while Morse was still married, he and Stormy smoked a little weed, and then he turned to her and proposed. \u201cBarry said, \u2018You know, we\u2019re really good together,\u2019 \u201d Stormy recalled. She agreed and said yes. Morse partied on the weekends and had bipolar disorder, but this did not especially trouble Stormy. A couple of months after they got engaged, Morse was arrested. He was later convicted of cocaine possession, intent to distribute marijuana, and carrying a concealed weapon. He was sentenced to thirty-four months in prison. That spring, while locked up, he finalized his divorce. On June 6, 1985, he and Stormy were married at the Frederick County Adult Detention Center. Morse told a reporter who covered the event for the Frederick News-Post<\/em>, \u201cShe\u2019ll be waiting for me at the gate when I walk out.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1988, Stormy gave birth to a boy the couple named Myles. She stayed at home while Morse tried his hand at different businesses, including owning a video store and producing country music.<\/p>\n

Morse frequently had outbursts of rage, and Stormy said that he abused her. One time, he slammed the butt of a pellet rifle on her foot and broke her toe; another time, he threw a glass that hit her in the head. When such episodes were over, Morse would cry, beg for forgiveness, and buy Stormy gold rings and necklaces.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement had taken Morse\u2019s weapons, and, as a felon, he was prohibited from owning a firearm, but he got Stormy to purchase a .38 Special revolver for him. She was reluctant to get him the gun, but was worried that he\u2019d get in trouble if he tried to buy one himself. Firearms were a part of Morse\u2019s identity, a characteristic no different from his love of country music. \u201cHe just always wanted a gun,\u201d Stormy said. \u201cHe was just one of those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Early one morning, in June, 1991, Stormy was padding around their home in her pajamas. She went into the bathroom, while Myles, almost three, was in the hallway, and Morse was around a corner. He picked up the revolver, and Stormy heard it go off. She ran to him. \u201cI smelled the gun, and saw him physically just hit the ground,\u201d she said. Part of Morse\u2019s head appeared to be gone. Without thinking, Stormy scooped up Myles and ran to a neighbor\u2019s house. \u201cI\u2019m banging on the door,\u201d she told me. \u201cAnd when she opens it, I threw Myles into her hands and said, \u2018Barry accidentally shot himself.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n

Stormy called an ambulance, then crouched beside Morse. \u201cI said a prayer over his body,\u201d she recalled. \u201cI said, \u2018God have mercy on his soul.\u2019 And then, all of a sudden, lights flickered down, and I had this hand on my shoulder. A heavy voice said, \u2018He\u2019s with me.\u2019\u00a0\u201d The paramedics arrived, and Stormy watched her husband get zipped into a body bag. At that moment, a repossession agent showed up. He told her that he was looking for Morse, who, unbeknownst to Stormy, was in debt. The paramedics were in the process of moving the body, so she told the man, \u201cHe\u2019s coming down the steps.\u201d<\/p>\n

The repo man took the family car, leaving Stormy and Myles stranded. She called her mother, who drove over and retrieved them. Stormy felt that God had signalled that Morse\u2019s soul was safe, and that she and her son would find a way forward.<\/p>\n

According to a federal-data analysis by Cassandra Crifasi, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University, 30,810 Americans died by suicide in 1991; sixty per cent of those incidents involved a firearm. Eighty per cent of those who shot themselves were white men, which is not surprising, since white men accounted for about two-thirds of gun owners in the United States.<\/p>\n

A year later, The New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> published a study that linked the ready availability of firearms to an increased risk of suicide. The finding came at a sensitive moment for the National Rifle Association, the country\u2019s leading gun-rights group. Violent crime, often involving guns, was surging across the country. Gang-related shootings seemed ubiquitous, and there were also sporadic mass shootings, including a notorious 1989 incident in Stockton, California, in which a man carrying an assault rifle opened fire at an elementary-school playground, killing five children. Democratic lawmakers were in the process of passing bills that would establish a background-check system and an assault-weapons ban, and the N.R.A.\u2019s membership had dropped from more than three million, in the mid-eighties, to less than 2.5 million.<\/p>\n

Surveys of civilian gun owners showed that they mostly kept weapons for hunting; firearms were tools of leisure and sustenance. To grow, the N.R.A. needed to position the weapon more as a symbol of cultural defiance. Its messaging increasingly played up notions that the government was tyrannical, seeking to disarm law-abiding Americans and willing to kill those who refused to comply. The N.R.A. found common cause with anti-government conspiracy theorists at Ruby Ridge and religious extremists at Waco, and referred to law-enforcement officials as \u201cjack-booted government thugs.\u201d It mounted a campaign to restrict the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which funded The New England Journal\u2019s<\/em> suicide study, from underwriting gun research. The N.R.A.\u2019s research co\u00f6rdinator asserted, \u201cWorldwide, nationwide, regionally there is no relationship between gun availability and suicide rates.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These public debates didn\u2019t register with Stormy, even after Morse\u2019s death was ruled a suicide. She and Myles had moved in with her parents. She gave her full attention to her son, who was in distress. He wasn\u2019t interested in interacting with other kids, and he rarely spoke. When his grandfather gave him watercolors, he used the brush on his face, coloring it red, as if re-creating the last image of his father.<\/p>\n

Stormy thought Myles was too young for therapy, so she looked for hobbies that might help him engage with the world. When Myles was about five, she noticed that he loved riding on her father\u2019s A.T.V., so she enrolled him in a racing program for children, in which he rode a four-wheeler around a dirt track. \u201cMotorsport opened me back up,\u201d Myles told me recently. \u201cRacing became therapy for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

By the time Myles was six, he was at the track so often that his four-wheeler began to break down. The vehicle required a special bearing, and the only place to buy it nearby was a machine-parts shop called Applied Industrial Technologies. When Stormy and Myles went there, a man named Lewis Tabler helped them. He was in his late thirties, short and wide, with an olive complexion, a neat beard, and a receding hairline. Tabler spent two hours searching for the bearing, and Stormy was impressed by his patience. Tabler ended up ordering the part, and when Stormy\u2019s father came to pick it up Tabler asked for permission to call his daughter.<\/p>\n

Tabler seemed responsible and kind, but also tough and fun. He had a number of tattoos: a cobra, a burning phoenix, a snake wrapped around a sword, and, on his backside, the Rolling Stones\u2019 tongue-and-lips logo. Tabler was a Republican and a member of the N.R.A. who owned multiple guns, but he rarely discussed politics. Hunting was his passion, and he gave Stormy the impression that his firearms were merely a means to that end, just as they had been for the men in her family. Still, after Morse, she had concerns. \u201cI did question Lew about his guns,\u201d Stormy recalled. \u201cBut he kept telling me he was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tabler told Stormy that he had left home at eighteen and never returned, and he avoided talking about his family. All Stormy knew was that his father\u2019s heart had failed early, and Tabler had developed heart disease, too.<\/p>\n

Tabler, Stormy, and Myles became a family. Stormy had a Yorkshire terrier Tabler called Toad, and the dog became his close companion. He took Stormy and Myles to restaurants, movies, concerts, and the Smithsonian. He went to Myles\u2019s races and bonded with him over Nascar and baseball. For a while, Tabler coached third base for Myles\u2019s Little League team. He also took him fishing and target shooting. \u201cHe was essentially my father,\u201d Myles recalled.<\/p>\n

Earlier in Tabler and Stormy\u2019s relationship, Tabler had told her that he\u2019d been married once before, but that the relationship ended when his wife ran off with his best friend. Tabler wrote Stormy a letter laying bare his feelings and insecurities. \u201cWhen I first met you I knew you were the one very special woman that I could want, love, respect and desire for the rest of my life,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how I knew it but it was as clear as your blue eyes. You have changed me, changed my entire outlook on life. I am totally committed to you and everything I do and say and the way I am with you is due to the love I feel for you.\u201d Tabler went on, \u201cI want you to be my wife one day. I think we have something very special that can last forever but I need to know I\u2019m the only man you want or it will never work.\u201d<\/p>\n

The couple discussed marriage, but Stormy wanted to keep the last name Morse, to match her son. Then Tabler informed her that they didn\u2019t have to get married at all, because if they stayed together they would be considered married in the eyes of the law. \u201cHe said, \u2018I\u2019ll take care of you, you take care of me, and I\u2019ll leave you everything,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Stormy told me. A marriage license, he told her, was \u201cjust a piece of paper.\u201d She didn\u2019t know that a couple can\u2019t enter into a common-law marriage in the state of Maryland.<\/p>\n

In 1997, Stormy used funds she\u2019d received from Morse\u2019s life insurance to place a down payment on a home in Hagerstown, a rural part of Maryland. Tabler, Stormy said, did not have any savings to contribute, but that was fine by her. Something good should come from Morse\u2019s death, and the house was quaint, with a large domed skylight and a wooden footbridge that led to the front door.<\/p>\n

Stormy and Tabler both signed the mortgage documents, and then, on the same day, signed an agreement they\u2019d drawn up together. It contained twelve vows, including \u201cI know I need to change some, but it must be my decision to change\u201d; \u201cI don\u2019t want to be bossed around, I\u2019ll try not to boss you, either\u201d; and \u201cI will try to be as honest with you as I can and be the kind of person you can count on.\u201d The last vow read, \u201cWhen I open up and tell you about my feelings, sometimes it will be like handing you a little baby bird\u2014please hold and handle with care.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The couple agreed that Tabler would earn their living while Stormy handled what she called \u201cthe woman stuff.\u201d She cooked, cleaned, did laundry, and maintained their two acres of property. Tabler also needed help managing his heart condition, and required near-constant reassurance that Stormy was devoted to him. This insecurity, which Stormy attributed to his first marriage, soon became possessiveness, and her relationships with her family and friends gradually withered.<\/p>\n

Tabler also became critical of Myles, whose presence seemed to irk him. Myles was skinny and, like his dad, had a prominent nose and dark features. As a teen-ager, he learned to skateboard and play the guitar. He sometimes got into trouble at school, but generally kept to himself. Tabler picked fights with him about chores. He was \u201cjust physically aggressive and in your face,\u201d Myles said. \u201cTrying to start an argument.\u201d When Stormy wasn\u2019t around and things escalated, Myles said, Tabler would hit him, either with a belt or with his fists.<\/p>\n

In Stormy\u2019s opinion, men were inherently violent. Once, when she and Tabler got into an argument, he shoved her. Myles, who was fifteen or sixteen, came to her defense. Stormy decided to let them fight. \u201cI figured they just needed to get it over with,\u201d she said. And, after surviving one traumatic relationship, Stormy said, she was trying to avoid more upheaval. Besides, she loved Tabler, and believed that he loved her, too. But the rift between him and Myles widened. After Myles graduated high school, in 2006, he moved out. He stayed with his grandparents and worked at Quiznos, and then at a movie theatre. Eventually, he got into car detailing.<\/p>\n

Tabler\u2019s clogged arteries kept death on his mind. He took numerous daily medications and was in and out of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, in Baltimore, where doctors inserted multiple stents. Before every surgery, he shaved his forearms in preparation for I.V.s, and then drove to Applied Industrial, where a colleague would take him to the hospital, about an hour away. He didn\u2019t want Stormy to drive him; it made him anxious.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2007, Tabler made Stormy the sole beneficiary of his life-insurance policy and his retirement account. He named her the executor of his estate, and, in his will, he said that he wanted to be cremated. A portion of his ashes, he wrote, should be scattered in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge, a nature preserve on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore that is a destination for hunters. The rest would stay with Stormy.<\/p>\n

The next year, Barack Obama ran for President, signalling the potential end of a government that, under George W. Bush, had been friendly to the N.R.A. During Bush\u2019s two terms, Republicans in Congress had allowed the federal assault-weapons ban to lapse, and passed a bill that shielded the gun industry from many liability lawsuits. In almost every way, Obama appeared to be Bush\u2019s opposite. He represented progressivism and multiculturalism, and he didn\u2019t appear to understand gun culture. Gun manufacturers and the N.R.A. jointly launched a membership campaign called \u201cPrepare for the Storm in 2008.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tabler was an avid reader of the N.R.A.\u2019s publications, and took the organization\u2019s assertions as gospel. The group began feeding its audience an endless supply of outrage. It spent fifteen million dollars to blanket the country with television, print, and radio ads declaring that Obama \u201cwould be the most anti-gun President in American history.\u201d In flyers and mailers, and on a website called GunBanObama.com, the N.R.A. described Obama\u2019s \u201c10 Point Plan to \u2018Change\u2019 the Second Amendment.\u201d The claims, which were false, included allegations that he intended to \u201cban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns,\u201d and the \u201cuse of firearms for home self-defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

To many conservative, working-class white men, Obama\u2019s ascendance was a sign that the social hierarchy had been reordered and that the future did not include them. The N.R.A. tapped into this sentiment. On the campaign trail, Obama had talked about how blue-collar men had been uniquely harmed by a convergence of economic and social changes, leading to a loss of status and of sense of self. As a result, Obama said, \u201cthey get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren\u2019t like them.\u201d Though it was intended as an expression of sympathy, the language was coarse, and the N.R.A. exploited it. One prominent ad featured a hunter who said, \u201cBecause I believe in traditional American values, go to church, exercise my right to own a firearm, Barack Obama says I\u2019m bitter. Well, I\u2019m not bitter, I\u2019m blessed.\u201d The N.R.A. printed yard signs and T-shirts that read \u201cI\u2019m a \u2018bitter\u2019 gun owner and I vote.\u201d Another ad included another hunter who asked, of Obama, \u201cWhere is this guy from?,\u201d a nod to the conspiracy theory that Obama had been born in Africa.<\/p>\n

The N.R.A.\u2019s campaign successfully rejuvenated the gun-rights movement, framing it as a fight against cultural erasure. Obama\u2019s election led to a historic surge in firearm sales, and Tabler saw himself as part of this movement\u2014a kind of resistance soldier. His response to the messaging seemed quick and stark. \u201cLike the flip of a switch,\u201d Myles said. He began referring to Democrats as fascists and Obama as a \u201ccommon nigger.\u201d He fretted about the prospect of the government confiscating his guns. Tabler told Stormy, \u201cIf they come for mine, I\u2019m shooting out of the window.\u201d He added, \u201cYou\u2019ll be reloading for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tabler also talked about hiding in the woods of Camp David, the Presidential retreat, which was nearby; he could use one of his rifles to assassinate Obama. Killing the President, Tabler told the family, would make him an \u201cAmerican hero.\u201d Myles said, \u201cI saw him become unhinged.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tabler increasingly loathed his job. \u201cI\u2019d feel bad every morning,\u201d Stormy said. \u201cHe would go out and say, \u2018I\u2019m going to a fucking job I don\u2019t even like, doing stuff I don\u2019t fucking even want to do.\u2019 \u201d He banned Stormy\u2019s family, including Myles, from the house. She had one good friend, whom she would sometimes visit while Tabler was at work. They hung out and smoked pot, which provided a respite from the tension. \u201cIt came down to\u2014he wanted me home all of the time,\u201d Stormy said. \u201cHe wanted me all to himself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myles bounced around various jobs and homes, and by 2010 he was living out of his car. One night, he didn\u2019t have a safe place to park, and Stormy said he could come over. But, when he pulled into the driveway, Tabler came to the front door and screamed, \u201cYou need to leave now!\u201d He raised a handgun and fired in Myles\u2019s direction, hitting some rocks. Myles fled. Tabler told Stormy that he\u2019d shot a plastic round, not a real bullet, but she felt he was using his guns as a means of control, and she was overwhelmed with thoughts that he would one day kill Myles.<\/p>\n

Toad, the dog, had died, and Tabler had replaced him with two new Yorkshire terriers. He spoiled them with treats, but kept an inventory of all the food in the house to make sure that Stormy wasn\u2019t secretly feeding Myles. Stormy worried that Myles would wind up on the street, so to pay for his car insurance she sold the gold jewelry that Morse had bought her.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Tabler began carrying a concealed handgun, though he didn\u2019t have a permit. On several occasions, when he and Stormy were in the car together, he grew enraged and flashed the weapon at other drivers. He weighed more than two hundred and fifty pounds, and drank whiskey to ease his insomnia. His heart was packed with stents and a pacemaker. Surgical scars ran down his chest and inner thighs.<\/p>\n

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Stormy remembered that sometimes, at night, Tabler would wake in a panic, grab a firearm, run to the front door, and check for intruders. He was scared to be alone in the house, and started tracking the odometer of Stormy\u2019s car. One of his guns, a silver Taurus Judge revolver, had a laser sight. At home, he often held the loaded weapon and pointed the red dot at Stormy. \u201cBecause of Barry, I was used to having a gun in my face,\u201d she said. \u201cSo I always told him, \u2018If you accidentally shoot me, you\u2019ll have to report it to 911.\u2019\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Around this time, Tabler learned that he could leave his life savings to the N.R.A., through its planned-giving program. The N.R.A. was by then among the most significant advocacy organizations in the country, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue a year. The group made constant appeals to its members for contributions, and it lured big donations by offering photographs in a vanity magazine, commemorative jewelry, and gold blazers.<\/p>\n

On August 1, 2011, without alerting Stormy, Tabler called the N.R.A. and left a message. Pierce Shields, an assistant director of planned giving, got back to him that afternoon, and later recounted the conversation in a signed affidavit. \u201cLew informed me that; he had heart disease since 1988,\u201d Shields wrote. \u201cThat he hated liberals, that his girlfriend was the current beneficiary of his 401k, that it was valued around 462k, that his \u2018yorkies\u2019 were his children, that he sold industrial equipment, that he did not want his girlfriend \u2018to receive a dime of his retirement plan,\u2019 and that she was \u2018a crazy bitch.\u2019 \u201d Shields went on, \u201cHe said that he loved freedom and what the N.R.A. stood for and there was no better place for him to leave his money.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, Tabler e-mailed Shields his latest retirement statement. He wrote that he \u201cwanted to get this ball rolling,\u201d adding, \u201cI would hate to check out without having fulfilled this pledge. There is no organization that reflects my own personal views on freedom or that I feel is more deserving of my hard earned money than the N.R.A.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two men continued to correspond over the next few weeks, and on August 26th Tabler made the beneficiary change official. On a form that inquired about \u201cspousal consent and acknowledgment,\u201d Tabler wrote, \u201cN\/A.\u201d When asked to describe his relationship to the gun-rights group, he said, \u201cFriend of all Americans that care about the U.S. Constitution.\u201d Tabler e-mailed the form to his employer, and then gave permission to the N.R.A. to put his name on display at the group\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

On the afternoon of August 31st, Shields and his boss, Tim Fisher, the N.R.A.\u2019s director of planned giving, ate lunch with Tabler at a seafood restaurant in Frederick. \u201cLew told me how his girlfriend \u2018Stormy\u2019 was a \u2018low-life\u2019 and that her first husband committed suicide,\u201d Shields recalled of their meeting in his affidavit. \u201cHe said that he would kick her out but she would end up on the street. He also joked that if something ever happened to him she was probably involved.\u201d Fisher added, in an affidavit of his own, that during lunch Tabler was \u201cadamant about who he did not want to benefit from his 401-K and that of course was Stormy.\u201d He wrote that Tabler \u201cexpressed his dismay that Stormy did not work outside the home and did not contribute financially.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fisher later sent Tabler a handwritten note. \u201cI want to thank you again for your passion for freedom and for the very significant gift you have made as evidence of that passion,\u201d Fisher wrote. He informed Tabler that a gold \u201cBenefactor ring\u201d symbolizing his generosity was arriving soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tabler checked in with Applied Industrial to make sure that the company had registered the change. \u201cI\u2019ve been in the hospital for my heart twice in the last two months,\u201d he e-mailed. \u201cMy spirit will never rest if my girlfriend and her bumb [sic] son end up with all that money I\u2019ve been saving for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Myles now had a place to live and a steady job working on cars. But he felt a sense of family was still missing. A friend gave him a vinyl copy of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cRainbow Bridge,\u201d and, on December 23, 2011, he bought a six-pack, drove to his mother\u2019s house, and presented both the beer and the album as gifts to Tabler. \u201cHe invited me to stay,\u201d Myles recalled. \u201cWe split the six-pack and fully listened to both sides of the album before I left that night. We actually had a good time together.\u201d<\/p>\n

It turned out to be an anomaly. The day after Christmas, Myles abruptly left work because his stomach was troubling him. He had to use the bathroom, and didn\u2019t think he could wait until he got home. His mother\u2019s house was on the way, so he called and asked if he could stop by. She said yes, but, while Myles was on the toilet, he heard Tabler screaming that he was unwelcome and an \u201cintruder in his home.\u201d Before Myles could pull up his pants, Tabler kicked in the door and pointed his revolver at him. \u201cI\u2019ll fucking shoot you, boy,\u201d Tabler said, according to a police report.<\/p>\n

Myles lunged at Tabler, and the two wrestled. The report said, \u201cMyles grabbed Tabler\u2019s gun hand, and pointed it towards the ceiling, and Tabler told him to let go because the gun might discharge.\u201d Stormy intervened and managed to take the gun away. At some point, Tabler had dialled 911, but then hung up before speaking to an operator. The police showed up at the house, where an officer interviewed everyone and concluded, \u201cI did not see any reason for Tabler to resort to the threat of deadly force.\u201d The revolver had been fully loaded, and Tabler was charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault, and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n

Soon after the incident, Stormy recalled, Tabler met with his attorney, who told him that he was going to lose his guns because of the case. When Tabler got home, he was sullen and quiet.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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But Tabler had a small consolation prize: he\u2019d received his N.R.A. ring, and appeared delighted to wear it in front of Stormy. The jewelry represented a secret that would enable him to control her even after he died. On New Year\u2019s Eve, Stormy went with Tabler to the home of a hunting friend. In handwritten notes from around that time, Stormy wrote that Tabler didn\u2019t drink that night and that they had fun. It was \u201cthe last time we had sex!!\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n

Early on the morning of January 10th, while it was still dark, Tabler, who was then fifty-six, told Stormy that his heart was bothering him. He planned to go into the office, he said, and then, following his custom, drive with a colleague to Johns Hopkins for surgery. Tabler shaved his forearms and dressed in bluejeans and a camouflage fleece jacket, but did not wear his N.R.A. ring. As he walked out the door, he was holding his twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun in a case. Tabler told Stormy that he was lending it to a friend. He hugged and kissed her. They both said, \u201cI love you,\u201d and then Stormy added, \u201cDon\u2019t worry about your surgery. I\u2019ll be there.\u201d She heard him drive off in his company-issued white Chevy pickup.<\/p>\n

Around forty-five minutes later, Tabler drove into the empty Applied Industrial lot and parked behind the loading dock. He unlatched the tailgate of his truck. In one hand, he held the shotgun. In the other, he held a stick with a \u201cV\u201d shape carved into one end. He positioned the gun\u2019s butt against the open tailgate and the muzzle against his chest. Then Tabler pushed the stick against the trigger, sending a round of bird shot through his heart.<\/p>\n

Soon afterward, a colleague arrived and found Tabler lying beside a dumpster. Blood trickled out of the corners of his mouth and covered his clothes. The colleague touched Tabler\u2019s hand, which he later described as \u201cice cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stormy was still at home. As the morning wore on, she had called Tabler to check in, but he hadn\u2019t picked up. She tried him many more times and became concerned. A friend of hers worked across the street from Applied Industrial, and Stormy asked her to check on him. \u201cShe kept saying to me, \u2018There\u2019s police over there. Somebody\u2019s dead behind a trash can. All I can see is sneakers,\u2019\u00a0\u201d Stormy recalled. She knew it was Tabler, and, when the authorities finally notified her, Stormy\u2019s first thought was \u201cYou motherfucker you. How did you hug me when you walked out the door knowing what you were about to do?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When a person enters a state of suffering and has thoughts of self-harm, they tend to reach for what is readily available. A firearm requires little effort to use and is almost certain to result in a fatality, which helps explain why gun suicide has accounted for a majority of suicide deaths in the United States every year since at least 1968. When Morse shot himself, in 1991, gun fatalities in America were more or less evenly split between suicide and homicide. In 2012, when Tabler shot himself, there were 20,666 gun suicides in the U.S., or sixty-two per cent of all gun deaths. This ratio remains stable, and the victims of these suicides have hardly changed, either: nearly eighty per cent of them are white men.<\/p>\n

The N.R.A. has never released demographic information about its members, but research continues to show that white men are, by a wide margin, the Americans most likely to own firearms. Until recently, after the organization was beset by corruption scandals, it was the center of the Second Amendment movement and guided the behavior of millions of followers. Since 2013, it has lost at least two employees, both white men, to gun suicide. A third died the same way in 2020, soon after the N.R.A. fired him. Three years later, an article published in one of the organization\u2019s magazines declared, \u201cIt is simply not proven that gun control will significantly reduce suicide rates.\u201d Acknowledging otherwise would mean recognizing that a public-health crisis has been unfolding among the gun industry\u2019s top customers.<\/p>\n

On January 11th, the day after Tabler\u2019s suicide, Stormy contacted Applied Industrial. There was a little more than two thousand dollars in Tabler\u2019s checking account, and Stormy needed money to live on, to pay the mortgage, medical debts, and credit-card bills. When she reached someone at the company, she learned that she would receive about forty-one thousand dollars in life-insurance money, but that the nearly half a million dollars in Tabler\u2019s retirement account would go to the N.R.A. The irony that Tabler had died by gun suicide only deepened her devastation. \u201cI just bawled,\u201d Stormy said.<\/p>\n

Still, she assumed that, given the circumstances, the N.R.A. would refuse the money. She sent a handwritten fax to Applied Industrial, informing the company that she was contesting the beneficiary change. In the meantime, Myles moved home to be with his mom, and they began to sell everything of value.<\/p>\n

In early March, Fisher, the N.R.A.\u2019s planned-giving director, learned that Tabler had died. He e-mailed Applied Industrial, pointing out that Tabler had been dead for two months, and that \u201caccounts with properly designated beneficiaries\u201d are \u201cgenerally available for distribution within 7-10 business days.\u201d He went on, \u201cWe want to do whatever is needed to make this a smooth process.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Meanwhile, multiple debt collectors had filed claims against Tabler\u2019s estate, and the register of wills informed Stormy that she also owed an inheritance tax, since she was now the sole owner of the home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As a favor, a neighbor of Stormy\u2019s who was a lawyer spoke to the N.R.A.\u2019s assistant general counsel, Sarah Gervase, on her behalf. The neighbor raised the possibility that the organization might give up some of the money, according to Gervase, who recounted the exchange in an e-mail with Applied Industrial in early June. Gervase wrote that she \u201cinformed\u201d Stormy\u2019s neighbor that the \u201cNRA is not willing to settle this.\u201d Tabler\u2019s cause of death did not seem to have any bearing on the organization\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

Stormy started cold-calling lawyers in the hope of finding anyone to fight one of the most powerful political organizations in the country. Everyone she called turned her down, until she\u00a0happened on Paul Jorgensen, an attorney who had moved to Maryland in the nineteen-seventies, after a stint in San Francisco during the height of the counterculture. He wore enormous glasses and worked in a dim, ramshackle office, among stacks of old storage boxes and piles of paper. \u201cThe law is bullshit,\u201d he told me. \u201cIt favors whoever has the most money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jorgensen matched the N.R.A.\u2019s tenacity. Recounting the experiences of Stormy and Myles, and compiling records to substantiate their stories, he argued that his client, as Tabler\u2019s dutiful partner for some twenty years, was entitled to his savings. The fight dragged on for eighteen months. Stormy\u2019s debts grew alongside Tabler\u2019s 401(k) account balance, which, by February, 2014, had reached nearly five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. That month, Stormy signed a settlement with the N.R.A. She felt that it was her only choice; her financial burdens were too large, and she didn\u2019t want to lose her home. She received a hundred and five thousand dollars, and the organization took the rest. Her portion didn\u2019t last long. She covered the family\u2019s debts, and said she paid Jorgensen tens of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stormy was grateful for her attorney\u2019s work, but remained consumed by feelings of rage and injustice. \u201cIt\u2019s a total mindfuck,\u201d she told me. \u201cThe N.R.A. fucking played Lew. They viewed him as a sucker, filled up his mind with a bunch of bullshit, and scammed him.\u201d<\/p>\n

(The N.R.A., Sarah Gervase, and Pierce Shields did not respond to requests for comment. Tim Fisher could not be reached. He and Shields no longer work for the organization.)<\/p>\n

In 2015, Stormy got her first job since giving birth to Myles, as a cashier at a local gas station. After a disagreement with her boss, she was fired, and took a position at a nursing home. Her responsibilities there, she said, included bathing patients and changing their bedpans. During the pandemic, in 2021, a patient asked her to take some clothes to Goodwill, which was a breach of company policy. Stormy obliged, and again was fired. She then found a job at FedEx, as a package handler. She is now sixty-four and works night and early-morning shifts, from 10:30 p.m<\/em>. to 9 a.m<\/em>., six days a week.<\/p>\n

Myles still lives with Stormy. For the past eight years, his girlfriend and her daughter, who is going into fifth grade, have lived at the house, too. Myles considers the child his own. He\u2019s found a bit of solace in his closeness with her, and in being attentive, patient, and kind. He suffers from intense anxiety, which he manages with medical marijuana.<\/p>\n

The adults in the house pool their resources. \u201cWe\u2019re surviving,\u201d Stormy told me, in February. She and Myles sat across from me at their dining-room table. Sunshine poured through the domed skylight. After her night shift, Stormy\u2019s eyes were raw and red-rimmed. As she talked about money, she began to cry. \u201cI\u2019m not going to be able to retire,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m just catching up. I want to make sure I keep this house.\u201d<\/p>\n

The roof needs urgent repairs, and the siding needs a fresh coat of paint. The deck was rotting but Stormy couldn\u2019t afford to fix it, so she had it torn down. There\u2019s also still a hole in the bathroom door, where Tabler had kicked it during his final confrontation with Myles.<\/p>\n

Not long ago, Stormy dislocated her shoulder at work, and workers\u2019 compensation accidentally overpaid her by three thousand dollars. She didn\u2019t realize it, and used the money. Now she has to pay it back. Last year, she had a mild stroke. \u201cYou\u2019re worried about every day,\u201d Stormy said. \u201cJust to make sure that everything\u2019s taken care of and bills are paid or what else can fucking happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I asked about Tabler\u2019s firearms, and Stormy told me that, immediately after his death, she stored them with a friend. She did not want guns in her home. Myles, she said, gets depressed, and \u201che\u2019s only seen men take care of issues by killing themselves.\u201d I asked Myles if he thought he would have died by gun suicide if he had access to weapons. \u201cI definitely do,\u201d he answered.<\/p>\n

Before Tabler died, he composed an e-mail on his work account that he never sent. \u201cI woke up at 2:30 this morning,\u201d it read. \u201cDecided not to go to the hospital again. This isn\u2019t life.\u201d He signed off, \u201cTell everyone I\u2019m sorry. I couldn\u2019t take it any more.\u201d The e-mail surfaced during Stormy\u2019s fight with the N.R.A. When she was forced to sell the family\u2019s valuables for money, one of the items she pawned was Tabler\u2019s gold benefactor ring. For her, it symbolized deception and heartlessness. But for Tabler it was proof that he had served the cause of freedom. His ashes are in a box in Stormy\u2019s cluttered garage, while Morse\u2019s are inside the house.\u00a0\u2666<\/p>\n

This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit news organization covering guns in America.<\/em><\/p>\n

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