Rejected: Gun Store Cancels AR-15 Purchase by Gabby Giffords’ Husband

An Arizona gun store cancelled a purchase made by former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords’s husband Mark Kelly. On March 5th, Kelly visited Diamondback Police Supply in Tucson, selected an AR-15 style rifle, a .45 caliber handgun, and some high capacity magazines, completed a background check and paid for his purchases.

Within days, the story (broke nationally) and Kelly claimed that his purchases were made to highlight how easy it is to get a gun. He also added that he intended to turn the AR-15 into the Tucson Police. The story sparked almost 4,000 comments to Mark Kelly’s public Facebook page, many of them not very supportive of his intentions.

The store, Diamondback Police Supply in Tucson has now rejected Kelly’s March 5th purchase, and has sent him a full refund. The decision was announced on the company’s Facebook page, in a post from the Diamondback’s owner/president Douglas MacKinley:

“While I support and respect Mark Kelly’s 2nd Amendment rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then for his personal use. In light of this fact, I determined that it was in my company’s best interest to terminate this transaction prior to his returning to my store to complete the Federal From 4473 and NICS background check required of Mr. Kelly before he could take possession this firearm. A full refund was sent to Mr. Kelly, via express mail, on Thursday of last week.”

Spouses of certain people who were shot (news worthy, not commoners like us), have a tendency to overcompensate for that tragedy by going into total opposition to the weapon, not the shooter.

Cases in point. Sara Brady (James Brady, Reagan’s press secy)

Carolyn Murphy’s husband, killed by Colin Ferguson? on a subway train (a racial black on white killing of at least 6 people). She is now a wacked out U.S. Representative from NY

Mark Kelly - Rep. Gabby Gifford’s husband.

and a couple whose names I have forgotten. Maybe Yoko Ono re John Lenon.

Notice that in the Murphy case, the shooter was close enough to have stabbed many of the people he shot, as was the killer of John Lenon.

The same for Loughner, the shooter of Gifford, and John Hinckley, the shooter of Brady, several law enforcement officers and Pres. Reagan.

Instead of trying to keep nuts from getting guns, or even being on the streets when they are known threats, these people take the easy way out, yet they are willing to jeopardize the lives of potential crime victims in the process.

This is not “concern” for people. It is exactly the opposite, a disdain for them.

There has to be a psychologic term for this type of person though I cannot think of it right now unless it is a “projectionist”.

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