Gordon Kahl shootout, 30 years later: Fears of anti-government groups surface again in region

PERHAM, Minn. - Wayne Sorem hadn’t read much about Gordon Kahl until recently. And despite holding some views that mirror those of Kahl – a tax dodger who killed two federal agents in a shootout in Medina, N.D., on Feb. 13, 1983 – Sorem is taken aback by the story of one of the region’s most infamous crimes.