Records obtained by The (Appleton) Post-Crescent detail how a handgun ended up in the possession of Robert Schmidt, who used the weapon to kill his wife.
Schmidt was prohibited from having a firearm as one of several conditions associated with a $10,000 bond. It was ordered in a felony domestic violence case in which he was charged with raping his wife at gunpoint.
Schmidt used Armslist.com, which bills itself as a “firearms marketplace,” to facilitate the purchase, reported the Post-Crescent‘s Alison Dirr. The site is accused in a lawsuit of designing a platform for the purpose of facilitating illegal transactions. The case, which has reached the Supreme Court, stems from Radcliffe Haughton’s 2012 purchase of a handgun on Armslist that he used to kill his estranged wife and two other women at Azana Salon & Spa in Brookfield.
Dirr’s story uses records to chronicle the gun’s journey from one owner to the next, ending with Schmidt. He purchased the white Glock 19 for $550 just days after being released from the Calumet County Jail, according to the story. Records associated with the GPS monitor Schmidt was wearing show the transaction took about 17 minutes.
