A Note From Jim and Sarah Brady (Henry Bowman Know Thy Enemy Barf Alert!)

MY MAILBOX | 16 APR 09 | dcbryan1

[Darwin Fish]

Sarah married Jim AFTER he was confined to a wheelchair, and has been using him ever since.

[El Gato]

Bowman didn’t mess stop with defending himself from LEO’s...
He went after who sent ‘em.

I've read the book too, more than once.

[El Gato]

All private dealers conduct background checks.

There is no such thing as a private dealer. If you are a dealer, you must have a FFL, and conduct the NICS check, at your place of business, or at a gun show. (With some exceptions, such as purchases by those with CHL/CCW from certain states, like Texas for example).

That said, collectors and/or hobbyists can sell guns, at a gun show, or elsewhere without conducting any check at all, at least in the Free States. YMMV. (It would be good to check a driver's license, since even for individuals, sales to out of state residents may be illegal.)

[Atlas Sneezed]

if you want to buy a handgun - or a weapon powerful enough to down a commercial airline...

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Hey Jim, looks like you’re thinking with that scar tissue again.

But seriously, he didn’t write this letter. It was written by a professional fundraising hack who probably gets paid a share of the loot it brings in.

How does one bring down an entire airline, anyway? What weapon did Carl Icahn use?

[Atlas Sneezed]

“you can even buy an American-made AK-47 or Uzi-style killing machine”

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Think they’re trying to deceive people into thinking that these are machine guns?

[El Gato]

You should take the pre-paid envelope and send back one bullet.

Nah, you gotta feel sorry for Sarah's pull toy.

But you could put a flat piece of lead the size of the envelope in it, and mail that back to them.

You see those envelopes are not "prepaid" rather, as they say on them, "Postage Will Be Paid by Addressee". :)

[Atlas Sneezed]

And that is why I say, “Enough is enough...NO back ground check, NO gun, NO excuses!”

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Hey Jim, here’s the deal. I’ll accept your background check. I’ll show my “not a criminal” ID when I buy, if you’ll agree to end the collection of data on me and the gun I buy. Just like the government gets no record of your wife’s cigarette and Jim Beam purchases (though she does need to prove she’s of age).

OK? You’re not putting together a confiscation database, are you? Huh? Jim?

[Wonder Warthog]

"I am sorry Jim was wounded when Reagan was almost killed. I would have hated to see Reagan killed. We would have lost out on his leadership. But Ronald Reagan never advocated for abolishing the Second Amendment, and neither should you."

Being "well-aged", I remember when this happened, and I also remember JIM Brady's comments right afterward when his wife was starting to spout anti-gun bullshit. He actually said that he disagreed with her, and what happened to him wasn't the effect of loose gun laws. I guess if you live with a brainwasher and are helpless in her hands, you eventually will come around to the way she thinks.

[ApplegateRanch]

I'm sitting here in my wheelchair today, mad as hell, trying to control my anger, but without much success.

Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross has posited sequential stages of grief including denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance,

Way past time to to move on to Stage Three, Bucko!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Here is an interesting note. Just before Jim was shot, Handgun Control Inc (HCI), now the Brady Campaign, released a statement saying they ONLY wanted to control handguns. Long guns wiould not be affected.

America was awash with”assault rifles” but HCI saw no problem with them....until they saw a chance to frighten people and ban them!

[Squantos]

They violate the RICO act with such spam do they not ?

As well I read today that email spam used enough energy to power all of Alaska last year. Lets ban such as the Potato Heads of HCI ......for global warming and gay islamic illegal whales etc etc ...... !

And using Mr & Mzzzz Potato Heads logic shouldn’t we all be packing M249’s an Hk 416’s versus snub nose revolvers ?

I am just glad liberal socialists can’t shoot........time will come they’ll get what they wish for and they won’t like it at all IMO !

Stay safe !

[ApplegateRanch]

1) Mac-10 automatic pistol = $795

Please, point me in the right direction...my wife's birthday is coming up, and she's wanted one for a long time. At that price, I'll get one for me, too.

Wiki: MAC-10 machine pistols are NFA articles, and probably the least expensive (relative; Approximate cost as of Q1 2009 is $3,600 US +/-)[6] automatic weapons on the American market.

price guides

[ApplegateRanch]

You should take the pre-paid envelope and send back one bullet.

...or a teabag.

[DoughtyOne]

I had forgotten that. Jim was in a tough situation. So was she really. She found solace in adopting the wrong cause. I have sorrow for her, but what she is doing is wrong.

Disarming law abiding citizens will only mean more dead good citizens.

[Repeat Offender]

MAC-10s were only in production for civilians for about 16 years before Reagan signed that atrocity of a gun bill. I also doubt they’re available for under a thousand.

Nope $425 my FRiend..... figured you may want a heads up...

http://gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=126969813

NO THIS IS NOT MY AUCTION, NOR AM I AFFILIATED WITH IT.

[oyez]

I feel sure Jim Brady has all the security he needs, but most of us are alone in the open. The sick-o criminal element see the handicapped as an easy mark. IMHO, it would a equally sick-o system to not allow the handicapped the chance to defend themselves.

[tet68]

Collectors under an O3 FFL can sell to individuals but are
still required to note the details of the disposition in their bound book, identification,DL# etc, make a mistake and you could be in deep trouble.
The ATF can demand at any time , an inspection of your collection or a review of your bound book.

[wastedyears]

An automatic that goes for under $500? Would that even be a legit auction, or a BATFE trap?

[Still Thinking]

Whodathunkit -- Jim Brady and I actually agree on something, and it even has to do with guns: "I'm angry at...the dangerous state of "gun politics" in Washington D.C."

[Still Thinking]

What are the odds that Jim Brady doesn’t even know that the letter purported to be written by him exists?

What are the odds he realizes his wife exists? Come to think of it, I wish I didn't know she existed.