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STEINBERG: Would-be terrorists can buy guns, but a reporter? No.
Chicago Sun Times ^ | 6/17/2016 | Neil Steinberg

Posted on 06/18/2016 7:52:19 AM PDT by nj_pilot

There’s something soothing about buying a gun.

Driving to Maxon Shooter’s Supplies in Des Plaines on Wednesday to purchase my first assault rifle, I admit, I was nervous. I’d never owned a gun before. And with the horror of Sunday’s Orlando massacre still echoing, even the pleasant summer day — the lush green trees, fluffy white clouds, blue sky — took on a grim aspect, the sweetness of fragile life flashing by as I headed into the Valley of Death.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicago.suntimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: alcohol; domesticbattery; guns
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So a rabidly anti-gun columnist tries to by a scary AR15. There has been a rash of lame, mail-it-in similar articles from lazy reporters lately. Yawn.

The shop knows who he is because they are paying attention. When he's denied, he whines about the shop not selling to him because he's a reporter (not a protected class, Neil).

Unfortunately for the Sun Times, they sent the wrong guy. The author has a well-documented history of alcoholism and admits to spousal abuse. That's a disqualification for this shop, even if he passes the NICS check. You can't un-know what you know, and any FFL has sole, absolute discretion to deny a sale for any reason.

So his point seems to be: Guns are too easy to get because this shop won't sell to an alcoholic abuser. or something. Front page news in Chicago: The system works, even if you have to read between the lines to draw that conclusion.

1 posted on 06/18/2016 7:52:19 AM PDT by nj_pilot
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To: nj_pilot

This is what passes for an investigative reporter these days.

And this is a very simple subject.


2 posted on 06/18/2016 7:57:29 AM PDT by wrench
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Known history of wife abuse? Sorry, not a man in my book. A wife is the most precious blessing God has to offer. A male who does not get that is no man. Just a beast who needs to be put down.


3 posted on 06/18/2016 7:57:55 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: nj_pilot

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-10-02/news/0510020260_1_chicago-sun-times-domestic-battery-jail

Yup.


4 posted on 06/18/2016 7:58:03 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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Terrorists don’t have to buy weapons , Obama gives them away for Free


5 posted on 06/18/2016 7:58:47 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nj_pilot
Our transaction took nearly an hour because we chatted. Mike used to read newspapers but doesn’t anymore because of opinion writers like me. He knew whether it was legal to bring the gun to Chicago — it’s not. He was friendly, candid, so I asked difficult questions. Did he ever feel guilty about the people killed by the guns he sells? No, he said, that’s like asking a car dealer if he felt guilty if someone gets drunk and kills somebody in a car he sold. It seemed a fair answer. I asked him if I could quote him in the newspaper, and he said no, I couldn’t, so I’m not quoting him.

These fricking people are full of more lying, colluding, conniving and contrived shit than a Christmas Turkey.

6 posted on 06/18/2016 8:02:35 AM PDT by Gaffer
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***Known history of wife abuse?***

In the olden days such a “man” would be flogged. Then a bunch of busy body women decided flogging was “bad” and petitioned the courts to have it treated as a common crime with jail time but no flogging.


7 posted on 06/18/2016 8:07:55 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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The debate should quickly pivot into the question of why are terrorists allowed to gain US citizenship. No citizenship no guns


8 posted on 06/18/2016 8:08:51 AM PDT by magna carta
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To: nj_pilot

Atimes reporter can’t even buy a noun.


9 posted on 06/18/2016 8:10:35 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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Obama: Over One Million Muslim ‘immigrants’ to this country during his country.

How many are terrorists?

Moderate Muslims are the tall grass in which Islamic Jihadi Terrorists hide undisturbed.


10 posted on 06/18/2016 8:10:37 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: magna carta

There is a part of the story out there that has Omar traveling privately to Afghanistan. How does one return to the US with that stamped on your Passport?


11 posted on 06/18/2016 8:11:53 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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“Would be terrorists” are 95% of the time Moslems. The solution is to repatriate them to their own countries. Get them the HELL out of America and this so-called “problem”
is 95% solved.
To complete the solution, do away with all this “gun control” Bullsh*t!


12 posted on 06/18/2016 8:17:26 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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Obama: Over One Million Muslim ‘immigrants’ to this country during his country. How many are terrorists?

1% would mean 10,000 jihadists.

13 posted on 06/18/2016 8:23:22 AM PDT by AU72
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THIS is the real 9/11. Imagine, an Orlando every two weeks for the next 5-10 years. It is a diabolical plan, and it is avidly aided by this pResident Halfrican Muslim we call Obama.


14 posted on 06/18/2016 8:25:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: nj_pilot

Well, arguably, the reporters are more dangerous...


15 posted on 06/18/2016 8:27:21 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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A wife is the most precious blessing God has to offer.

You've never met my ex.

16 posted on 06/18/2016 8:29:31 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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17 posted on 06/18/2016 8:31:27 AM PDT by null and void (Hillary Milhouse Clinton: I'm not a c-c-c-crook! Crook! Yeah, that's the c-word I was looking for!)
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To: wastoute
Known history of wife abuse? Sorry, not a man in my book. A wife is the most precious blessing God has to offer. A male who does not get that is no man. Just a beast who needs to be put down.

I have very strong feelings about this, and could not agree more.

18 posted on 06/18/2016 8:32:05 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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Come on, Neil, dig, dig, dig deeply...you can do it, it involves the FBI, CIA, 0bambi, and what is allowed to be used in investigations or screenings...it involves the book of hate you have not ever opened, called, the “K0-ran”...you can do it, Neil...dig, dig, dig...


19 posted on 06/18/2016 8:32:20 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (0bama is drunk on taqiyya. Even seen a moderate Muslim? Hmm?)
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To: null and void

” You’ve never met my ex.”

And yet, you asked her to be your bride?


20 posted on 06/18/2016 8:33:30 AM PDT by wrench
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