Posted on 03/23/2002 6:43:17 PM PST by Seeking the truth
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WASHINGTON - Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned.
Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop.
"I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."
Brady became a household name as a crusader for stricter gun-control laws after her husband, James, then the White House press secretary, was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan.
Brady writes in "A Good Fight" that the unnamed gun shop ran federal Brady Law and Delaware state background checks with great fanfare.
The book suggests that she did not have her son checked, as required by Delaware state law.
"(W)hen the owner called in the checks, it seemed to me he spoke unnecessarily loudly, repeating and spelling my name over and over on the phone," Brady writes.
Amy Stillwell, a spokeswoman for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the federal Brady Law does not require background checks for intrafamily gun gifts.
Stillwell said she did not know whether her son was checked under the state law. The Delaware Department of Justice says the state does not have an exemption for family gifts.
"Scott is not a convicted felon, and he is not prohibited from owning a gun," Stillwell said. "Scott Brady could walk into a store and buy a - he is not a prohibited purchaser."
Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori Sitler said the purchase could be illegal under state law if Brady did not also say who she was buying the gun for and submit his "name, rank and serial number" for a full check.
"You can't purchase a gun for someone else," Sitler said yesterday. "That would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got a problem right there."
Anti-gun control advocates were surprised to hear of Brady's foray into their world.
"We hope that it's innocuous and there's been no laws violated," said James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. "It's obviously interesting that Sarah would be purchasing firearms of any kind for anybody, given her championing of restrictive guns laws for everyone."
Brady became a household name as a crusader for stricter gun-control laws only after her husband got shot...I mean really....who cares if the little people in the ghettos all around her in the DC were killing each other!?!
A straw purchase is a straw purchase, and that is in violation of federal gun laws, as well as those in certain states. Of course, the libs will let her spin her way out of a law that would and has put many in jail, and demolished their rights under the Constitution forever.
I would like to see the pu$$ys at the NRA get going and hammer the Brady Bitch with her own gun control laws. But James Baker "hopes" this is just some kind of oversight. What a wienie.
However, Delaware state law apparently requires a check for the giftee as well, so the major violation is DE law, not federal law. But, as an added bonus, the federal transfer is legal "if the sale is otherwise legal under state law." Hence, if there is a state law violation, there may be an added federal charge because it wouldn't have been "otherwise legal" if DE law is found to be violated.
Gun control advocate may have violated gun laws By TIMOTHY J. BURGER New York Daily News Posted on Thu, Mar. 21, 2002 WASHINGTON - Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned. Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop. "I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and...
12527189 posted on 3/22/02 6:25 PM Eastern by Johnny_Apollo
WASHINGTON - Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned....(Read the rest here)
12519295 posted on 3/22/02 12:07 PM Eastern by Inspector Harry Callahan
Do you suppose she checked in with Rosie also. These people never cease to amaze me. It's do as I say, not do as I do.
A pox on Sarah Brady.
Brady, Feinstein, Boxer, O'Donald etc hypocrites with guns...
I would question her sanity at this point, which alone is cause for investigation by the FBI and BATF!! Pat her down good boys, she might be "packing heat!"
Quick! Seize her arsenal of "powerful assault weapons!!" ;-)
Laws, I might add, that have been interpreted oh-so-liberally, in order to hound diligent, lawful gun shop owners out of business.
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