Posted on 08/23/2019 7:24:37 AM PDT by rktman
Okay—let’s look at the positives of this story. A Business Insider reporter, Hayley Peterson, tried to buy a gun at Walmart to test “the placement, selection, marketing, and security of firearms in Walmart's stores, and to learn more about the retailer's processes governing gun sales.” In other words, she wanted to make sure that background checks work. So, she’s going to try and buy a gun, which is something that tens of millions of Americans have already done. And she walked into a Walmart—a family-owned business that’s anathema to the Left. After the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, Walmart has been hit with a petition to end all gun sales.
During the process, Peterson admits that the process was more complicated than the false narrative that’s peddled by the liberal media, the most popular being that it’s easier to buy a gun than cold medicine. Well, her journey just slapped all those clowns who thought that with reality. Background checks are effective. Everyone who goes through a Federal Firearms Licensed dealer to buy their firearms, which is the vast majority of sales in this country, has to undergo a background check. Period. It’s the law
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Remember Obama once said, that it’s easier to buy a gun than to buy a book? He was discussing something about how it is, that so many young black men get in gangs and have guns but no books.
She should have gone to a gun show and looked for a loophole. That’s where they keep the guns.
Is that anything like a time portal?
It’s easier for a teenager to get an abortion than an adult to get a gun.
***Walmart—a family-owned business that’s anathema to the Left.***
I remember Walton’s 5&10 on the west side of the square in Bentonville, Arkansas. One day Sam got a chance to buy some bankrupt Ben Franklin stores and stock, so took a chance and succeeded.
Because of his success, he is now hated throughout the Leftist parts of the US.
Now, if the guy who owned another 5&10 on the North side of the Bentonville square had done the same, and succeeded, HE would be the one remembered, and hated, while Sam would have been forgotten.
Maybe he failed because the Confederate Soldier monument on the square is looking at his store.
Hayley Peterson won’t find any firearms for sale at a Walmart in CA.
I have bought most of my guns at gun shows and any gun that I thought worthy of owning involved a background check. Loopholes may be there, but I will trust dealers that stand by their stock.
Before you buy a gun, you have to have a license, so did this gal just walk in without one, and expect to buy a gun?
Secondly, with a license, I’m not sure what Walmart does, but the first obstacle, a big one is getting a license.
I applied for one here in GA. After about 6 weeks a denial came back saying that I had something on my record that prohibited the sale to me.
I responded, and it turned out when I went thru a divorce some 30 years ago, I got in an altercation with my ex’s new boyfriend. The guy was like 6’ 4” and built like a tank. I had come to the house to pick up my son, and I went into the outside took shed to look for some tools.
My wife filed a false police report that I had come to her house and threatened her and her bf. I was actually arrested.
She never dropped the charges so I had to appear before a judge who ruled in my behalf, cause she didn’t show.
Was still on my record after all these years. No gun license until I had the record updated. Took several phone calls and a letter, but it was expunged.
Various things you wrote make no sense to me.
I live in GA. You do not have to have a license to buy a gun. You have to have a license to carry concealed.
To buy a gun, you have to go through a NICS check. That occurs immediately, not over 6 weeks, and the choices are DENY, DELAY, and PROCEED. For a DENY, you can get the NICS check number and appeal it. For a DELAY, you can wait three days and after the third day, if there is no DENY, you can pick up the gun. Obviously a PROCEED means you can walk away with the gun.
Cold medicine is not a protected right.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear cold medicine, shall not be infringed.
Wow, in all the years I’ve followed your postings, this is the first I remember in which you weren’t trying to be silly or trolling the newbies.
I tried to buy a gun at Walmart twice, and roadblocks left me empty-handed both times
Business Insider ^ | 08/21/2019 | Haley Peterson
Posted on 8/22/2019 4:44:34 PM by Responsibility2nd
“Before you buy a gun, you have to have a license...”
Actually, that depends on the state.
Can you even buy Huck Finn anymore?
Illinois? I don’t need a license in Oregon. But, you’re post raised a question in my mind. Isn’t it racist to expect people to have a picture ID to evercise their God-given civil right of gun ownership? From what I’m told, blacks and other minorities have great difficulty getting picture ID.
I was just about to post, but see #14. I don’t know what kind of license you’re talking about, other than a driver’s license, because that’s all you need in GA.
...I have bought virtually all of my guns at gun shows, but truth to tell, a number of them were private sales... I cannot agree that private sales represent some sort of “loophole”....these guns were older, not-quite-antique guns; odd seldom-seen guns; even a couple of brand-new guns that were being sold from estate sales, etc. They all have been good shooters and have never had a problem with any of them....CAVEAT EMPTOR as the Romans (supposedly....) said....
I’ve seen him do that many times.
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