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It sounds as if Mayor Bloomberg's agents violated federal law, but it doesn't sound as if the Arizona gun sellers violated any law.

Private sales are perfectly legal in Arizona, and that is the way we intend to keep them.

The concept that the government could or should only “allow” certain people to have guns stands the very concept of American jurisprudence on its head. It presumes that the government knows all, controls all, and should be doing so. It is wrong and ineffective.

It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns.

This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.

The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.

1 posted on 01/31/2011 5:40:21 PM PST by marktwain
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The NYPD LEO’s were acting outside of their lawful authority, in violation of their department policy and likely several laws.

Bloomer can’t give his cops a commission to work as a cop, undercover or otherwise, for the state of Arizona.

Bloomer knows this, so I can’t help but wonder if he got the Feds to approve this, just to cover his rear.... or (put on your tinfoil hat), did all this happen at the behest of Obama’s people.

Bottom line... I think there is much more to this slimy event.


25 posted on 01/31/2011 6:53:19 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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The NYPD LEO’s were acting outside of their lawful authority, in violation of their department policy and likely several laws.

Bloomer can’t give his cops a commission to work as a cop, undercover or otherwise, for the state of Arizona.

Bloomer knows this, so I can’t help but wonder if he got the Feds to approve this, just to cover his rear.... or (put on your tinfoil hat), did all this happen at the behest of Obama’s people.

Bottom line... I think there is much more to this slimy event.


26 posted on 01/31/2011 6:53:33 PM PST by Gator113 (I'm voting for Sarah Palin, Liberty, our Constitution and American Exceptionalism.)
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FUNY

27 posted on 01/31/2011 6:54:33 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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This country seems to have an abundance of power-mad dwarves running loose...


29 posted on 01/31/2011 7:00:23 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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Gee how much did that cost? Airline tickets, hotels, rental cars, food, entertainment, gun purchases, etc.
Who paid those bills?


30 posted on 01/31/2011 7:02:43 PM PST by conservativesister
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Private sales are legal in Washington state also.

But I believe it is still a class C felony under state law to knowingly and willingly sell a weapon to anyone if you have any reason to believe that person may not lawfully possess a firearm.

I suspect the Arizona statutes say much the same thing.


32 posted on 01/31/2011 7:04:16 PM PST by djf (Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
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Bust Bloomberg - Fishing without a License.


36 posted on 01/31/2011 7:22:19 PM PST by whatexit
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“Bloomberg should probably keep his undercover officers dedicated to preventing crime in his own city, where the homicide rate is markedly higher than the state of Arizona.”

Does anybody know what the population is in AZ, as compared to NYC?


54 posted on 01/31/2011 9:20:03 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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Has Bloomberg got a Napoleon complex?


55 posted on 01/31/2011 9:22:27 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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No laws were broken, which the article should state if the reporter was honest (ha,ha). Bloomberg should stick to his own city, and undercover NYPD cops operating outside their own jurisdiction should be arrested by local authorities.
67 posted on 02/01/2011 12:46:18 PM PST by ozzymandus
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68 posted on 02/02/2011 2:11:37 PM PST by Howie
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