[neverdem]

FYI

[neverdem]

BANG

[Tijeras_Slim]

ping

[Billthedrill]

Nicely written and researched. It is a common tactic for a political group to claim the middle ground when it is merely a vehicle for a less candid subset of either side. This dawg ain't hunting.

Unmentioned in all this is that a dealer who can be traced to a number of "crime guns" is a dealer whose record-keeping is good enough and whose adherence to ATF regulations is scrupulous enough. It's the ones who can't be traced at all that are the problem.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

Nice find. The RATS have gotten a bit more clever in their gun-grabbing efforts, but they still want the same thing they've always wanted: recension of the 2nd Amendment and confiscation of all privately owned firearms. Which reminds me, I need to renew my membership in the NRA.

[TexasRepublic]

I don't plan to be "reasonable". Screw 'em.

[Joe Brower]

[philman_36]

FYI...
Subversion in Bush Country
The Center for Consumer Freedom recently revealed that the Tides Foundation and Tides Center are major supporters of anti-war and left-wing causes. One of their projects is the Institute for Global Communications, a clearinghouse for leftist propaganda of living-wage advocates, anti-war protesters, slave-reparations hucksters, and a wide variety of extreme environmentalists. In February 2002, Orange County Register columnist Steven Greenhut termed it "a network of the loony left" that "has to be seen to be believed.” One alert posted in an IGC member bulletin board calls for financial support for the Earth Liberation Front, which has committed numerous documented acts of domestic terrorism. Another posting warns readers against cooperating with the FBI.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that the Tides Center had given the Independent Media Center $376,000, ironically, from its "9/11 fund." The Independent Media Center serves as an organizing outpost for protests and was the virtual staging ground for the April 20, 2002, anti-war protest in Washington.

I'm seeing. It's hard to believe, but there it is. Maybe others will see too.

[alaskanfan]

Be sure to contact your congress critters and let them know you want the assault weapon ban to sunset.

[TC Rider]

Even the AGS recognizes that booming business might have landed honest dealers on its "high crime gun store" roster, which includes a California dealer who had 1,000-plus guns stolen during Los Angeles riots.

I'm surprised it wasn't better defended.

[Teacher317]

Concerns about gun stores misguided

I don't tihnk it is "misguided"... I think it is very intentionally put forth by those who hope to misguide others.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

...shakes an accusing finger at 120 U.S. gun dealers who sold at least 200 firearms traced to some sort of criminal activity from 1996-2000.

I heard reported on our local news that 'my' gun dealer also made this list.

I shall of course, continue to purchase my firearms from Ron Peterson without so much as any hint of hesitation.

[Blue Collar Christian]

"A 31 page report...shakes and accusing finger at 120 U.S. gun dealers who sold at least 200 firearms traced to some sort of criminal activity from 1996-2000."

That's an average of 50 firearms a year for the entire nation. Or one per state per year.

Maybe I'm way out of touch, but those seem like such low numbers as to be not worth mentioning by the gun grabbing whiners, and they're trying to make this sound as though blood is flowing in the streets.

I'm sure all on this thread would agree that "reasonable guncontrol" is a contradiction of terms.