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Mark Kelly’s story on AR-15 purchase prompts skeptical open letter
Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 12 March, 2013 | David Codrea

Posted on 03/12/2013 6:31:14 PM PDT by marktwain

Dear Capt. Kelly,

Houston, we have a problem: Your story makes no sense.

You’re against rifles like the semiautomatic AR-15, which look like weapons of war, when you know full well the military doesn’t use them, but instead uses the select fire-capable M16. Yet you go to a dealer to buy a .45, a sidearm, which was actually, in your words, “designed for the military.” I’m not following your logic here.

You say as you were leaving the gun store, you noticed a used AR-15 and bought that, too. You then complain about your background check, and use that to attack private sales which don’t undergo background checks. I’m not following your logic here.

You say you have not taken possession of the gun yet, but when you do will turn it over to the Tucson Police. Why? If you wanted to buy them a gun, you could have just given them the money. If you wanted to prove how easy undocumented sales are, you could have bought one privately and taken possession of it instead of going through the trouble of proving you’re not a prohibited person. I’m not following your logic here.

The most troubling thing is, you didn’t “admit” that was your intent until after your purchase had been reported by alternative media and people were commenting on what appears to be hypocrisy of the highest order, compounded with implausible excuse-making. You then told CNN that making a Facebook announcement was something you and your “people” had a plan for, but you didn’t know when, like it’s some kind of big decision you have to consult a team on. I’m not following your logic here.

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Kelly is being ripped on this. It would never happen without the little bit of free press that exists in the new media.

The left is used to being given a pass on everything.

1 posted on 03/12/2013 6:31:14 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Silly Proles, don’t you know that those silly laws do not apply to your betters?


2 posted on 03/12/2013 6:33:14 PM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Those who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: marktwain

liberalism can’t exist without hypocrisy

their #1 rule is “It’s okay when we do it”


3 posted on 03/12/2013 6:33:37 PM PDT by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: marktwain

Kelly is a freeloading gold digger in search of a free ride through life.


4 posted on 03/12/2013 6:34:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: marktwain

Why didn’t he pick up the gun when he bought it? Was he having the dealer accessorise it?


5 posted on 03/12/2013 6:37:15 PM PDT by umgud
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To: marktwain

I thought the police could get fully automatic weapons,so a semi would just end up being destroyed


6 posted on 03/12/2013 6:37:25 PM PDT by archaicoldschool (.)
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To: marktwain
Kelly is being ripped on this.

Ripped to shreds on his own facebook page, too.
7 posted on 03/12/2013 6:40:40 PM PDT by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: marktwain

He reminds me of the child pornography collectors who try to claim they’re merely “researching” child pornography.


8 posted on 03/12/2013 6:45:12 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: marktwain

Anyone an operating brain cell knows this guy is full of more crap than a Christmas goose. Buy an AR-15 for the purpose of giving it to police ... right. Try again, sport.


9 posted on 03/12/2013 6:48:17 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Gun control: Steady firm grip, target within sights, squeeze the trigger slowly...)
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To: marktwain

Buying a gun with intent to turn around and give it to someone else like that is a straw purchase and a felony...

Woops.

Maybe him and that 30-round magazine news-tard can share a jail cell for their Federally mandated minimum ten yer sentence.


10 posted on 03/12/2013 6:49:34 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: Standing Wolf

“I” only bought PLAYBOY (45 years ago) to read the articles! ;-D


11 posted on 03/12/2013 6:54:17 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (CLICK my name. See the murals before they are painted over! POTEET THEATER in OKC!)
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To: marktwain

Maybe he’s planning to run against Ashley Judd in the Ky Dem senatorial primary....


12 posted on 03/12/2013 7:01:38 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Standing Wolf

BINGO!


13 posted on 03/12/2013 7:06:28 PM PDT by frogjerk (Obama: Government by Freakout)
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To: marktwain

I would like to see the conservative press delve into how Jerald Loughner got the gun in the first place. Loughner was known to the police, he was scaring people at his school. Why did the Democrat sheriff give him a license to buy a gun? And why did the same sheriff start blaming the Republicans just hours after the shooting? Was he trying to divert blame away from himself? Why did the Democrats bring up Sarah Palin’s website because of the innocent target pictures that she used? And why doesn’t Gabriel Gifford’s husband not take his fellow Democrat the sheriff of Tucson to task for giving a gun license to an obvious pyscho? Where is the national Democratic party on all of this?


14 posted on 03/12/2013 7:09:25 PM PDT by cradle of freedom (Long live the Republic !)
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To: umgud
five day hold on the NICS check???
15 posted on 03/12/2013 7:14:03 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: GeronL

That’s because most liberals profile with anti-social tendencies and many are genuinely sociopathic.


16 posted on 03/12/2013 7:20:22 PM PDT by Toespi
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To: marktwain

i have never met anyone who has bought something legal they don’t believe in, just so they could turn it into the police.

they do not exist. kelly is lying and he’s a libtard for thinking we’re dumb enough to believe his lies.


17 posted on 03/12/2013 7:25:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: marktwain

Lovin’ it.


18 posted on 03/12/2013 7:31:44 PM PDT by Gator113 ( ~just keep livin~)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Kelly struck me as a slimeball from day one. But for the fact that he was an astronaut he would have has zero chance with Giffords. Correct me if I’m wrong... Didn’t he fly a shuttle mission after she was shot? Anyone? Anyone?


19 posted on 03/12/2013 7:34:04 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: marktwain

“something you and your “people” had a plan for, but you didn’t know when, like it’s some kind of big decision you have to consult a team on.”

What kind of plan? Like maybe a staged, public mass shooting attempt? Seems to be the latest rage.......


20 posted on 03/12/2013 7:36:01 PM PDT by Toespi
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