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Dem House candidate releases video showing lack of background checks at gun shows
The Hill ^ | 05/01/18 | John Bowden

Posted on 05/01/2018 1:32:51 PM PDT by Simon Green

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1 posted on 05/01/2018 1:32:51 PM PDT by Simon Green
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Is it as “terrible” as late term abortions, Sir?


2 posted on 05/01/2018 1:35:30 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (Hey brainwashed students . . . where's your "outrage" @FBI? @BrowardSheriff? DO SOMETHING!!)
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“This is the same gun, same magazine I had in Afghanistan,

SHAMELESS liar.


3 posted on 05/01/2018 1:35:57 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Simon Green

Most likely a staged event.


4 posted on 05/01/2018 1:36:10 PM PDT by EnglishOnly (Fight all out to win OR get out now. .)
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Hmmm. Any video of warehouses being robbed of firearms with no background check? Or drug dealer to drug dealer? Or ms-13 thug to ms-13 thug? Nah, just focus on law abiding folks. It’s less work.


5 posted on 05/01/2018 1:37:02 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Well see what your up against now Conservative?

2006 all over again. Democrats will be shamelessly lying about everything to get elected.


6 posted on 05/01/2018 1:39:04 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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Everyone knows that videos are indisputable proof.


7 posted on 05/01/2018 1:41:54 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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SHAMELESS liar.

Not to mention calling it a "weapon of war". A Springfield Model 1855 muzzleloader is a weapon of war. The AR-15 is not.

8 posted on 05/01/2018 1:42:04 PM PDT by Simon Green
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To: MNJohnnie

Should disqualify him right there.


9 posted on 05/01/2018 1:43:05 PM PDT by ealgeone
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If Helmer purchased the same gun he used in the military then in the military he was using a non -government issued civilian gun! The military uses selective fire automatic weapons Civilian rifles are non-selective fire.
Mr Helmer seems to be a liar.


10 posted on 05/01/2018 1:43:38 PM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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A shotgun is a weapon of war. So is a Jeep. A truck. A plane. A knife.


11 posted on 05/01/2018 1:44:24 PM PDT by ealgeone
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It's called a face-to-face sale, and it is legal in approximately 35 states. The remaining 15 still require a background check or firearm owner ID card for private sales.

If the seller were a Federally Licensed dealer, he would have to perform a background check in all 50 states.

Get a life.

12 posted on 05/01/2018 1:45:14 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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...This weapon is similar to the weapons I carried in Iraq and Afghanistan...,” Helmer said”

If he is as dishonest and disingenuous as a Congressman as he is in this statement, then he is the perfect example of a Democrat.


13 posted on 05/01/2018 1:46:57 PM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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To: EnglishOnly

Likely s there are State Police there that can do background checks for those type of purchases. Helmer is full of $hR%t.


14 posted on 05/01/2018 1:47:28 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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To: ealgeone
"Civilian-Military Relations"

Campaign make him sound like Rambo but based on his military bio, and this ad, I doubt this guy ever heard a shot fired in anger.

Another gutter slime poltical con man.

15 posted on 05/01/2018 1:48:06 PM PDT by MNJohnnie ("The political class is a bureaucracy designed to perpetuate itself" Rush Limbaugh)
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> “terrifying”

__ssy


16 posted on 05/01/2018 1:50:02 PM PDT by old-ager
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I don’t think our case was that these sales don’t happen, it’s that the guns in these sales are almost NEVER used for crimes, particularly mass murders, and thus blocking these sales/transfers will not affect crime, but will make it that much tougher to own/sell/buy guns, which will have the effect of less and less people doing just that.

And THAT is what the Left needs - less gun owners, and when gun owners are few enough, the Left will simply FINISH THE JOB and make private ownership Illegal...and the votes on our side will NOT be there to stop them, or even slow them down.


17 posted on 05/01/2018 1:50:12 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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the dem candidate then went on to say he was on psychotropic drugs and having homicidal thoughts and felt really depressed that cops were oppressing him, and the guy at the gunshow, still sold him a weapon of war.


18 posted on 05/01/2018 1:50:16 PM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world.)
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In Texas if you are a licensed concealed carrier you can legally buy any weapon at a gun show and walk out the door with it!!!
19 posted on 05/01/2018 1:50:27 PM PDT by ontap
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He also committed a felony.


20 posted on 05/01/2018 1:51:27 PM PDT by DarthVader ("The biggest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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