[Cowboy Bob]

Kelly was probably going to use it to kill baby seals anyway (before handing it over to the cops, of course!)

[Sybeck1]

So Kelley was on record he was going to be a straw buyer?

[camle]

so he was purchasaing the firearm under false pretenses...

[P-Marlowe]

Kelly could not be reached for comment.

He was on a baby seal hunt in California with his attack dog.

[Mr. K]

"MacKinlay also said that his gun store will make a $1,295 contribution, the selling price of the assault rifle, to the National Rifle Association's Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program, which teaches gun safety to children."

Ooooooh that ones gonna get their panties in a twist!

[rocksblues]

Geez, these guys at this newspaper are failing at their job. They only call this AR-15 an assault rifle twice in the whole article.

[wbill]

I've followed this a little, here on FR. Key statement is thus....

When the purchase became public earlier this month

IMHO, this situation is akin to a bank robber getting caught, handing back the money, and saying "Great Job!! I was just testing out your security...."

Amazing what a little light does for the roaches.

[Brooklyn Attitude]

Perhaps he will be found guilty of killing a marine mammal by use of a dog which is probably a felony. That would prevent Mr Kelly from having to worry about how easy it is for him to buy a gun. He would also no longer have to worry about being shot...into space.

[Navy Patriot]

My goodness, one of the majority of ethical firearms retailers cancels the attempted straw purchase of a firearm by a disreputable socialist Demorat tool.

Who woulda thought?

Just every firearms salesman I know of, for the last 25 years.

[Don Corleone]

Arizona and Texas will be the foundation of a new Constitutional United States of America.

[Sender]

What I have read of the instructions for the actual buyer question say that if I go in to legally buy a gun with my own money, but plan on giving it to my son or someone else, then I can answer "yes" that I am the actual buyer.

Not specified in the instructions is the implicit assumption that the person you are giving the gun to must be legally able to receive a gun. In other words, you can't gift a gun to a felon or a Mexican drug cartel.

[MinuteGal]

All the pious trigger words thrown around by Kelly's spokes-shill....like "contribution", "donation", "gift", blah, blah.....can't hide the fact he was caught with a hypocritical lemon on his hands and now he's desperately trying to make some "charitable" lemonade out of it.

He's looking to continue Gabby's tenure at the public trough as a senator....slurping up power, fame and fortune for six years...and he knows that to win he has to insure that all lemons in his resume must be quickly re-packaged as Minute Maid's finest summer refresher.

Kelly is an oily, lying weasel, just like his patron saint in the White House (said saint who just sanctioned naming a naval warship after Kelly's wife).

I'm so sick of DC political power marriages.......Gabby and Kelly, Barry and Moochelle, Hill and Bill, Joe and Jill, Bradlee and Sally, Nancy and Harry, McCain and Grahmnesty.......

Leni