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To: foreshadowed at waco
I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked.

He makes all legitimate firearms dealers look like negligent morons.

The murderer was not in legal possession of those firearms. He committed fraud and the system gave him a pass.

And now officeholders are calling for the rights of law-abiding citizens to be infringed, when they failed to enforce existing statutes.

5 posted on 04/18/2007 2:06:09 PM PDT by wideawake
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To: wideawake

Just curious how the firearms dealer erred. If he did a background check and there was no record on the guy then there’s nothing else for him to do.

Are you saying there was something in the guys record the dealer ignored or that he failed to do a background check?


19 posted on 04/18/2007 2:11:48 PM PDT by saganite (Billions and billions and billions----and that's just the NASA budget!)
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To: wideawake
I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked.

It's not the dealer's fault it's the Fed's fault.

24 posted on 04/18/2007 2:14:50 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Ben Franklin, we tried but we couldn't keep it.)
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To: wideawake
Hey, before you criticize the firearms dealer, think about this. He calls in the information for the background check. If Cho isn't in the system, what is supposed to do, refuse to sell to him?

The same liberal pukes who want to take away our guns are the ones defending the rights of the criminally insane to not be profiled or have their information in any data base.

26 posted on 04/18/2007 2:16:00 PM PDT by Redleg Duke ("Wave Britainnia...Britannia waives the rules!")
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To: wideawake
I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked.

It wasn't the dealer's fault....it was the State of VA's fault. The dealer ran the required background check and got the okay to sell Cho the gun! The state of VA and the Feds (NICS) dropped the ball.

30 posted on 04/18/2007 2:18:50 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org ? Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: wideawake

Obviously someone dropped the ball and it wasn’t the arms dealer. Somebody is responsible for putting information in the data base, that obviously didn’t happen. How do you blame the gun dealer, he followed the rules, the info wasn’t there.


35 posted on 04/18/2007 2:20:51 PM PDT by panthermom (DUNCAN HUNTER 2008)
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To: wideawake
I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked.

The dealer's background check is only as good as the background material he's been given to use to perform that check. He had to assume the information in it was good. If a commercial aircraft suffers some major in-flight failure, even after the plane passed pre-flight checks, is it the pilot's fault when the plane crashes and kills everyone aboard?

67 posted on 04/18/2007 2:37:19 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
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To: wideawake
I hope that firearms dealer who was bragging about how thorough his background check was gets his license revoked. He makes all legitimate firearms dealers look like negligent morons. The murderer was not in legal possession of those firearms. He committed fraud and the system gave him a pass.

Other than voluntary disclosure of mental illness by the applicant himself, how would the gun dealer determine whether the guy is a nut job? I would think that the dealer's knowledge is only as good as the information in the database used for the background check, which probably does not contain psychiatric and mental health information particularly in view of HIIPA.

68 posted on 04/18/2007 2:37:22 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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