Posted on 07/31/2021 2:19:11 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
The criminal case against the 19-year-old who allegedly made the straw purchase that provided Kyle Rittenhouse his gun has been put on hold until after the Rittenhouse trial.
Dominick Black, who now lives in Racine according to court records, is charged with two counts of intentionally giving a dangerous weapon to a person under 18 causing death.
According to court documents, Rittenhouse allegedly gave cash to Black — who was dating Rittenhouse’s sister — to purchase an AR-15 style rifle for Rittenhouse from a Wisconsin hardware store because Rittenhouse was underage.
Court documents allege Rittenhouse retrieved the gun from Black’s stepfather’s house in Kenosha on Aug. 25, 2020, and that Rittenhouse and Black went together, armed, to protests in downtown Kenosha that followed the Jacob Blake shooting. Later that night, Rittenhouse shot three men, killing two, in what he and his supporters say was an act of self defense. Rittenhouse is charged with homicide.
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This is the first I have heard that it was a straw-man purchase. I thought that he was simply given the firearm that afternoon.
The left needs a hide to be tacked to the barn and as time goes on Rittenhouse’s is looking less and less likely to be it. If he doesn’t get stomped on in court the prosecutors will see to it that his friend is.
The feds will make him a deal: help us convict Kyle, or we will destroy your life.
He should be given a medal for providing a public service.The Left does not like its Revolutionaires and willing idiots taken out.
It makes sense to wait until after the Rittenhouse trial.
If Rittenhouse is found not guilty, then the charge against Black makes sense under Wisconsin law.
If it was legitimate self defense, as it appears from the videos, then the Wisconsin charge against Black is not valid.
Should be :
If Rittenhouse is found not guilty, then the charge against Black makes no sense under Wisconsin law.
First I heard of that. I understood Black loaned him the rifle and that wouldn't be illegal.
I wonder how Lefty is doing these days? If Kyle hadn’t shot him when he did, Kyle would have been dead.
Wisconsin hardware store...reminds me of Ed Gein.
But if Kyle’s head was split open this killing him, it wouldn’t be worthy of legal pursuit much less punishment. Just ask Reginald Denny, just caught up in the mayhem, was the ruling.
Paging Charles Bronsons, need some paybacks, is the only recourse.
Gun violence my ass, Colt keeps me equal at my senior best.
Meanwhile Angela Davis walks free and is celebrated by academia.
Black should have kept his mouth shut.
Just speculation - I am certainly not an attorney and I'd love to be wrong about it.
Only the Rat scum want to see Kyle wrongly persecuted.
Isn’t this a state level matter, not federal?
Should have if he didn’t
Smells like BS to me. Let's see the "court documents."
The ATF has not charged Black with a straw purchase, at least not yet.
The reason is clear. It is a very weak case. The rifle was kept at Black's stepfather's home in Wisconsin.
Rittenhouse only took possesion of it temporarily, in Wisconsin. Wisconsin law allows for that, as does federal law.
It would be a difficult push for a federal prosecutor to say an adult could not purchase a rifle for a teenager (with the teen's money), keep possession of it, then give it to them when they reach legal age.
Maybe the perjury charge would stick... It seems a stretch, given the rifle was kept in Wisconsin at the Stepfather's house.
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