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Three Louisiana school aides were caught on surveillance video abusing a blind and autistic student. Parents are outraged, and an investigation is now underway.

Are the visually impaired in Louisiana prevented from owning a firearm by law? The answer might not be as simple as you think.

They say if you lose one of your senses, another becomes heightened to compensate. That certainly seems to be the case for 50-year-old Bart Hickey. Legally blind, he can’t drive a car — but he can take one apart and put it back together. He even owns his own successful repair shop in the Chicago suburb of Alsip, Illinois.