Posted on 06/18/2016 9:33:31 AM PDT by orchestra
A CBS News crew decided to join apparently dozens of journalists across the country this week and purchase an AR-15 rifle on camera to show “how easy” it was to purchase a firearm by sending reporter Paula Reid to purchase one of these rifles, along with ammunition, from a Virginia gun shop.
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I'm surprised that the Communist Broadcasting System (SeeBS) allowed this to get out.
Now if ATF officials would show up and arrest this bimbo on the "straw purchase" charges, it would be fantastic.
She’ll do as much time as Brian Williams did.
As I understand it, if an executive at CBS says to Reporter Paula: “I need you to go buy a gun. I won’t go myself, but I want to send you out to get it.” I believe that fits a Straw Man purchase.
If reporter Paula fills out the form and says, “This gun is for my own use” and then travels a short distance gives the gun to someone else, I believe she has lied on a federal form.
If the person who receives the gun knows what is happening, then they are also committing a crime.
Not an expert here, but that’s my take.
If Liberals want gun laws in place and enforced, then Liberals will want to nail all of these people to the wall.
Unfortunately, sometime back the US Supreme Court decided that lying on the 4473 was not chargeable because by answering the questions truthfully the purchaser may violate the 5th amendment, the right against self-incrimination.
Lord knows the Court makes bad decisions.
If I get dragged into a courtroom, put under oath and asked, “Did you rob a bank?” I think I have a right not to incriminate myself. Of course, if I choose to incriminate myself, I certainly can say, “I robbed that bank and 2 others.” I don’t have to do that, but I could.
If I make a decision to buy a product, and I go to a store that sells that product, and the proprietor asks me questions, I think I can choose to walk away and skip the whole thing, or I can make statements on a 4473.
If I don’t walk away, and if I make false statements, I think I have made a choice to incriminate myself. I didn’t have to, but I chose to.
I should be subject to the consequences.
The nailed him with the check his father wrote to him for reimbursement.
But according to this thread, if he had gifted that gun to his father, there would be no crime.
And that’s one of the things Democrats want to stop.
Of course, you would be. However, some are more equal than others.
“the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms said they were unsure if any laws had been broken”
Some animals are more equal than others.
Or what if Dad had paid in cash?
The news media has been doing these strawman purchases for the last forty five years. In the 1970s it was handguns. Now it is rifles. They never get arrested for it.
In the meantime push the legislature to make it illegal for a convicted felon to work in the media. Why should freedom of the press be any less subject to legal sanctions than 2nd Amendment rights?
Bttt.
5.56mm
Not sure what backfired. She submitted to a background check and passed. Its exactly how it was supposed to play out. It seems now the libs feel background checks arent enough. (Who’s suprised?) The new narrative is waiting periods. What would that do to stop crime. Nothing!
It certainly is a complicated issue.....A couple of points, in the case of the LEO, it was a handgun, not a rifle and he also took it across state line to PA. No info on whether or not the father then registered it with his local PD........
When I inherited several handguns from my dad, I had to have them shipped from AZ via a FFL dealer to a dealer here in Michigan. I was then required to register them with my local sheriff's dept.
Lots of unaddressed questions........
From what I saw, the CBS reporter can use the dumb blonde (blanket sorry to all blondes) excuse.
Ignorance clause had been claimed by all associated with Hillary.
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