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It has been three decades since Jamie Cap last fired a gun, and he
remembers it as if it were yesterday, mainly because of what
happened the next day: a high school football game, a head-on
tackle and a neck injury that left him a quadriplegic and robbed
him of hunting, one of his lifelong passions. Or so he thought.
Cap, 46, recently won a 2 1/2-year legal battle to allow him to use
a 12-gauge shotgun fitted with a battery-powered machine that is
operated by a breathing tube.
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