Opinion analysis: No stand-in gun buyers allowed
By Lyle Denniston on Jun 16, 2014 at 2:03 pm
Analysis
An individual cannot walk into a gun dealers shop and buy a gun for someone else by claiming to be the actual buyer, a deeply split Supreme Court ruled on Monday. A form demanding to know who the actual purchaser is, the majority ruled, has to be answered truthfully, or else the transaction is illegal.
Justice Kagan with opinion in firearm straw purchaser case. (Art Lien)
The practical effect of the ruling is likely to be shutting down, or at least cutting back on, an active market in gun-buying by straw purchasers that is, mere stand-ins for the real buyers. The Court cited data that about half of all federal investigations of illegal gun trafficking involve such purchasers. Deliverymen, after all, are not so hard to come by, the Court majority remarked.
The ruling was limited to an analysis of the scope of a federal criminal law. There was no claim of interference with the right under the Second Amendment to have a gun for personal use.
The last game was the best because the Spurs got in a deep hole at the beginning of the game and still went on to blow out the Heat. They’re really throwbacks in today’s nba. Team play, not individual stars, won them the championship.
It’s OK. Valerie is in charge at the White House. Honestly, TPTB probably sent him off to get him out of the way so they could actually get something done.
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Seeing a money making opportunity? Hell, they wrote the law that allows them to feed at the public trough. It’s a well known fact that industry lobbyists carved out plenty of pork for themselves.
They’re still trotting out that 74 school shootings lie. That has been debunked but don’t expect the left to correct themselves. There’s nothing like a good lie to keep the sheeple stirred up.