[sickoflibs]

Do they get secret service protection?

[Blue Collar Christian]

Clear and concise as Lott always is.

[Logical me]

Don't believe the members of the Supreme Court ever read the Constitution by some of their judgments on guns.

[Hardastarboard]

I remember a Supreme Court ruling that said that if you were using a cordless phone, you couldn't claim you were illegally wire tapped, since you were "broadcasting". I was driving by a microwave transmission tower owned by one of the major phone companies when I heard it.

Dumb asses shouldn't be allowed to rule on ANY kind of technology that involves more than rubbing sticks together to make fire.

[48th SPS]

Actually the Supreme Court understands very little about anything except abstract law.
These poeple have rarely been outside of their structured little world in 15 20 25 years or more. They have no concept of real everyday life for real everyday American citizens.

[MarkL]

WTF?!?! I had heard about this, and grumbled about it, though I had never heard the fact that it was then transferred through a dealer, to another person! This would, for all intents and purposes, outlaw purchasing a gun as a gift for another!

Nobody in their right mind should be able to say that this is a staw purchase!

This ruling would effectively outlaw a father purchasing a .22 rifle or first shotgun for a child!

This is a complete and total outrage!!!

Mark

[Hootowl]

Hard to believe that in this country you cannot purchase a legal commodity (i.e., gun) and then dispose of it any way you want. I’m sure many people have purchased guns as gifts for sons or fathers or daughters or wives. How is this different than purchasing them a hammer or boots, both of which have killed more people than assault rifles?

[smokingfrog]

In my world, a “straw purchase” is when someone who is not legally able to buy a gun has someone else buy it for them and the gun is then transferred/possessed by the one who is prohibited from owning a gun without any background check.

That's the intent of the law that they ignore. It's odd that they would go after someone like this when there are a log bigger fish to fry.

[DesertRhino]

“When police officers retrieve a gun at a crime scene, they can trace it to the buyer and consider him as a suspect.”

A complete fiction. This is practically nonexistent as a law enforcement technique. It’s so rare as to be practically unheard of.
And useless because it assumes that crimes are committed by people law abiding enough to purchase and register a gun. Then they go off the rails and commit crimes. Then AT the crime scene, they inexplicably drop the gun, registered to them, and run.

[BuckeyeTexan]

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[Axenolith]

How the hell did this even get to court? The guy must have figured it was OK, and just blabbed about it until some hammer toting DA saw a nail sticking up...