The Complicated Life Of Kurt Cobain

Cobain Convinced A Friend To Buy Him A Shotgun

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They had conditions for Cobain if he didn’t go to rehab. Love threatened to leave him, and Smear and Novoselic said the band would be no more. Love wound up flying to LA and on March 26 and checked herself into an outpatient rehab program. Cobain didn’t go to rehab right away. On March 30, he dropped by his friend Dylan Carlson’s house and told him he needed a shotgun to ward off trespassers. He wanted Carlson to buy it because he feared police would confiscate the firearm. “He seemed normal, we’d been talking,” Carlson told Rolling Stone. “Plus, I’d loaned him guns before.”