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The Goleta Postal Murders

Mass Murderer Had No Problem Getting a Gun

Author Image By Barney Brantingham
Thu Jan 31, 2013 | 12:00am
Jennifer San Marco

JENNIFER GOT HER GUN: They called Jennifer San Marco “the crazy lady.” But she still got an official okay to buy the gun she used to kill six people at the Goleta mail-handling facility seven years ago this week, along with a former neighbor.

She was loony but not crazy enough to be denied the right to pay $325 for a 15-round, 9 mm Smith & Wesson model 915 handgun about six months before the murderous rampage.

San Marco, 44, was obsessed with racial hatred and so paranoid that she thought her former workmates were conspiring against her. Writings found back at her home in New Mexico indicated that she felt they were out to get her.

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