Posted on 05/25/2020 6:20:31 AM PDT by marktwain
Yes, the person who committed the murders was not allowed, legally to have firearms or ammunition.
The question is: should the clerk have, as a reasonable person, assumed that to be true?
“shot Sabrina Starr, 21, the next day. She had provided him with the gun he used, police said.”
How stupid can you get ?
Easy : Coercion and Extortion, and abuse of power.
Need a recent example of Coercion and Extortion ?
Look what happened to Director of National Security, Michael Flynn.
I.D. isn’t required to buy ammunition in MO. They may check to see if you are over 21 if you are buying handgun ammo. There is no way that a clerk could or should have known that Luis Perez was a prohibited person. To even suspect such would be ‘racism’ on the clerk’s part.
Yes, exactly.
To make myself clear, I believe requiring an ID to buy ammunition is bad policy, and is unconstituitional. It is clearly an infringement on the Second Amendment.
According to the article, Luis wasn’t the one who bought the ammo, some woman did. So the clerk had to be psychic to know that.
More to the point, it presumes the clerk could deny an ammunition purchase and NOT get the store sued for discrimination.
Many lawyers will say that the scariest thing in law is a jury of your peers.
Illegal immigrant or illegal alien?
“To even suspect such would be ‘racism’ on the clerk’s part.”
I suspect some anti-gun attorneys file these kinds of lawsuits in the hope that the legislature will respond by clamping down on legal buyers
So now, as a retail clerk in a store that sells ammo you need to read minds.
Skimming the article and comprehension errors are required at FR. I never shirk my skimming duties!
Well presumably, at Walmart they acted in a way that tipped off the clerk, and he refused the sale. Either by chance or by having learned their lesson at Walmart, they managed not to tip off the clerk at Academy Sports and he completed the sale. The plaintiff acknowledges this was a straw purchase by someone legally allowed to buy, but claims the Academy clerk should have known that.
A lawsuit and a story by and for morons.
Absolutely ridiculous.
But it does show the level of desperation of the lawyers to try a tactic like that.
Picking out the box and handing it over to Burden I would
think is not enough unless there is further information not revealed here that it was known to the employee that Perez was the buyer, speculation on my part.
Academy Sports certainly has a capable legal department and
most definitely a capable insurance company.
Utterly frivolous. Make the plaintiffs pay the court costs and legal fees and charge the lawyer with barratry.
I’ve never been asked for ID when buying ammo at Academy.
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