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To: usconservative

Just like what happened in New Zealand, when the Australian national (who was not legally able to own a firearm) shot up the Christchurch mosque...he had applied for a firearm license that involved a background check, and two references that had to be interviewed by the national police. His references were either completely fake, or real gun club members that didn’t know him...the police rubber-stamped their approval without ever investigating him.

That was reported only once, then swept under the rug as PM Ardern began pushing the ban on semiautomatic rifles.


63 posted on 01/19/2023 9:47:56 AM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress" )
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To: M1903A1
The Highland Park, IL shooting that happened here was the "justification" to pass this unConstitutional "law."

Problem is, IL also has red-flag laws on the books that were supposed to stop this shooting from happening. The shooter is a mentally disturbed individual, should never have been allowed to get his FOID card (which his own father co-signed for and LIED that his son wasn't a danger to the community despite NUMEROUS calls to the family home) and the Highland Park, IL police themselves neglected to notify the IL State Police (responsible for background checks) that the shooter was a danger to himself and the community.

So in passing IL's unConstitutional "assault weapons" ban, it was done for two reasons:

1. Placate the gun-grabbing Democrat core constituency;
2. Cover-up law enforcements complete FAILURE to have prevented the shooting from happening in the first place.

More laws aren't the problem. Accountability for one's actions are.

The dad belongs in jail for lying on the FOID form, the "kid" belongs in jail for killing multiple people and those responsible in the Highland Park Police Department who dropped the ball enabling this shooting to happen, all need to be fired and brought up on charges themselves.

In a true and just world, that's what would've happened.

Instead, an inanimate object called an "assault weapon" and us legal gun owners all get blamed to cover up this complete fiasco.

Effing ridiculous.

66 posted on 01/19/2023 10:51:45 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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