Posted on 11/29/2016 4:13:54 AM PST by marktwain
Bakr said, "There was an older gentleman there and he was kind of looking at me and I thought it was kind of strange, I told him something was kind of shady because he was staring at me and staring at the dude that was working with me."The whole idea of stopping criminals and miscreants from obtaining guns by doing checks at the retail level is flawed. It does not accomplish its stated purpose, because it is so easily circumvented.
Bakr went through the entire firearms buying process, and paid the $5 for the background check.
"That's when he told me he didn't feel comfortable selling me the firearm because he said that since I was with Heath, they thought I was going to buy it and give it to somebody younger," Bakr said. However, Smiley is 19, and has been sold guns before.
Then the Social Justice Warriors file lawsuits.
It is a pincer strategy.
On a few of the We Like Shooting Podcasts, Jeremy (a FFL) happily says that he has refused to sell, and said that the ATF encourages this.
That the ATF and FFLs work in concert with each other to prevent unauthorized hands from getting firearms.
Of course, his shop is in rural Ohio.
The SJWs wouldn’t last 5 minutes there.
Repeal 1986 and 1934 GCAs as well.
Anyone can understand why a gun shop in Florida would be nervous about selling a gun to a Muslim at this time.
Screw these people.
We need to get back to "We reserve the right to refuse service" and it doesn't matter whether you're black, white, yellow or brown.
It might be that I don't like the political slogan on your shirt. No sale, go find another gun store.
Not baking your cake, not renting my space for your queer "wedding".
DOJ needs to get out of our lives.
I agree. The simplist solution may be a Supreme Court that protects freedom of association as a Constitutional right under the Tenth Amendment.
The entire idea of “discrimination” as a concept that has criminal or civil penalties for private actors needs to be torn our by the roots.
I think you mean repeal the 1968 Gun Control Law. The law Reagan signed was designed to alleviate the onerous provisions of the 1968 law, namely the ammo registration books and the saw against rifles and shotguns being sold across state lines. Unfortunately we lost the right to buy new machine guns at the same time.
Still can’t buy a handgun across state lines.
I still remember the good old days when a teen could march into a gun or hardware store, gas station, clothing store, grocery store and buy a firearm and ammo, no questions asked. Cash and carry. Or drop a letter in the mail and have one shipped to you.
I cannot imagine how the bakers, and florists would view the cruel and unusual punishments heaped upon them by virtue of their desire to serve whom they will, and not who they are forced to serve. Common sense alone dictates man will not be forced by any law to go against his life principles. Thus freedom of association must be a right, or man is a slave.
Perhaps as an example one could use the entire Bill of individual Rights. The third says we are not force to house soldiers without our consent. Surely that might apply to anyone, not just soldiers? The fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth amendments also have merit.
The legal system such as it is has been turned upside down by the abandonment of long held common sense and tradition.
Teen characteristics have made some drastic changes since you and I were one of that crowd. I can remember strangers at the stores telling teenagers to “Hold the door for that Lady. Can’t you see she has her arms full?” and the reply was, “Yes, sir”.
Nowadays, the reply would be profane.
This article is about the 1968 law.
You can’t lose a right. It can only be infringed.
One of my favorite gun store customers was a Muslim in south Florida. His family owned a convenience store off of Southwest 10th Street in Deerfield Beach. It is a lovely neighborhood; very scenic and rustic in many regards. One of the neighborhood’s indigenous persons came in one night and announced a robbery.
They shot him and called the police. The police inspected their weapons during the investigation. They chastised the family for using cheapo solid ammunition in their .38s and told them to buy some quality hollow points because their job would be much easier if the robber had not survived.
My customer came in, told me this, and bought some Hydrashocks.
God was praised, as was the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.
On further reflection, this tale sounds a bit hard to believe. It’s not because Elmer Fudd might act like a jerk at a gun store, particularly a Bass Pro Shop. Rather, there’s a whole interchange that happens when a first time hunter wants to buy a gun.
It’s normal for him to bring his friend who, “knows about guns.” The buyer and the friend pick something from the rack and the buyer asks a few question while the friend and the salesman answer. It goes through “what are you going to hunt?” and “what’s your budget?” and “do you want to use a scope with it?”
That goes on for a while and I can see the Bass Pro staff not recommending an AR or an AK for a hunting rifle. It also makes me wonder about the friend, who observed that he is old enough to buy a gun. The article doesn’t mention the gun he wanted. Age is only a factor if it was a handgun and there are lots of inappropriate choices for handgun hunting in Florida.
The friend said he immediately asked if it was because his friend was black or a Muslim. I understand Bass Pro’s corporate paranoia about straw sales. ATF fined several Wal Marts for them. But this doesn’t smell right.
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