Posted on 04/22/2013 12:50:51 PM PDT by stevie_d_64
The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings were not licensed to have the firearms they used in several shootouts with police on Friday, Reuters reported Sunday night.
The news that the suspects were not authorized to own firearms will likely add fuel to calls for tougher gun laws an issue that was put on the back-burner last week after the Senate blocked the central elements of a gun-control package backed by President Obama.
Because Massachusetts state law bars handgun ownership for those younger than 21, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, age 26, was the only brother who could have obtained a license from the town of Cambridge, Mass., where he lived. But he didn't take that step, Dan Riviello, spokesman for the Cambridge Police Department, told Reuters.
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Gee whiz, how did you manage to get a permit in that state ? Did you have sex with Ted Kennedy ?
How? I jumped through the hoops, and have coonections in LE.
No gay sex..Ick. With a bootlegger? Beyond sickening.
NO GUN LICENSES?!?!?!?!
GASP...Oh Noes!!! Say it ain’t so?!?!?!
Ya means dey had ....GASP...ILLEGAL GUNS!?!?!?!
Gun control’s really working, isn’t it....
Well, sure-—didn’t that “gun free zone “ sign work properly at Sandy Hook? Does MA have those signs at its borders?
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