Paralysed teen plans to dismantle gun company

SOMETIMES Brandon Maxfield forgets. He will be cruising down the street with his best friend, talking about pro wrestling, music and girls, when it dawns on him with a familiar flash of embarrassment that it’s not his rainbow-spiked hair strangers are staring at.

“Then I’ll be like, oh yeah, I’m in a wheelchair,” said the Willits, California, teenager, who was paralysed from the neck down after being shot by a babysitter a decade ago and gets around by manipulating mechanical sensors around his head.

Maxfield, 17, is in the final days of a tense, quixotic gambit to buy and dismantle the company that made the gun that left him a quadriplegic.