Gun Rights Group Wants ATF To Investigate Gun Purchase By Sarah Brady

CNSNews ^ | 3/25/02 | Jim Burns

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

A gun rights group has asked the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to investigate whether a gun purchase by Sarah Brady, a leading gun control advocate, acknowledged in her autobiography, violates state and federal gun laws.

The group, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, is up in arms over a claim Brady made in her book, "A Good Fight," in which she said she bought a .30-06-caliber rifle from a Delaware gun shop.

Brady, head of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, wrote that she purchased the rifle for her son, but noted that it was her background and not her son's that was checked in order to complete the purchase.

The New York Daily News reported Friday that Brady's purchase of the rifle for her son, Scott, "could be illegal under (Delaware) 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."

On Saturday, the paper issued a retraction saying, "A story in some early editions of yesterday's Daily News incorrectly reported that gun control advocate Sarah Brady may have skirted Delaware's gun laws when she bought a rifle for her adult son but did not declare who was going to own the weapon."

"The Delaware Department of Justice initially insisted to The News that gun purchasers must declare who the weapon was intended for so that person's background could be checked. Yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Delaware Department of Justice said it misinterpreted the law and that Brady was not obligated to state that the gun was for her son as long as he was legally qualified to own a firearm. The News regrets the error."

Brady Campaign spokesperson Amy Stillwell told CNSNews.com that Brady did everything legally.

"Sarah did indeed buy a hunting rifle for her son for Christmas, which might surprise some people, but she has always said she is not a gun banner. But as far as the legality issue, she purchased it absolutely legally and proved that the system is working by undergoing a Brady background check," said Stillwell.

However, despite the newspaper retraction, Alan Gottlieb of the CCRKBA told CNSNews.com that his group is going to proceed with its request to the BATF and is going a step further.

"We have already filed our complaint with the BATF and we have no intention of retracting it. We are also filing a similar complaint with the Attorney General of the state of Delaware," said Gottlieb.

"From all appearances. Sarah Brady exploited one of those so-called loopholes in the Brady Law, for which she arduously campaigned, to get a gun for her son. We think the public deserves to know why she evidently felt it was okay to skirt that requirement for her own son," he said.

"There must be a Form 4473 on file at the gun shop, and with the BATF, and all we are asking is that the agency check to see whether it was properly filled out. There could have been a serious violation of state and federal law, and Sarah Brady is subject to those laws, just like the millions of other Americans whose firearm civil rights she has steadfastly worked to destroy," Gottlieb said.

The BATF had no comment when contacted on Monday.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

Sarah Brady, Gun Criminal?

[Vladiator]

The original article about this was retracted on Sunday.

So the author might want to check his or her facts.

[the]

"The Delaware Department of Justice initially insisted to The News that gun purchasers must declare who the weapon was intended for so that person's background could be checked. Yesterday, a spokeswoman for the Delaware Department of Justice said it misinterpreted the law and that Brady was not obligated to state that the gun was for her son as long as he was legally qualified to own a firearm. The News regrets the error."

Proving, once again, that the standards for getting into law school, for graduating from law school, and then getting a job working as an attorney for a state government is far too easy.

I analyzed this issue and came up with the correct answer in five minutes, not having looked at the Delaware statutory scheme in over five years. The schmucks at the Delaware AG's office, whose full time job it is to deal with Delaware state law, couldn't find their ass with both hands, a map and a flashlight. Bureaucrats!

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[the]

as are the standards for posting on FR. My hot head blew a conjugation again:

"government is far too easy. " should be "are far too easy" or better yet "government are far too lenient."

(Preview twice, post once!)

[Kermit]

"Sarah did indeed buy a hunting rifle for her son for Christmas, which might surprise some people, but she has always said she is not a gun banner."

No, she's a police statist, she wants the police and army to be the only ones with guns and that's totalitarian.

[the]

Great catch. I guess the Brady spokesthing couldn't get out the words, "Sarah Brady does not want a gun ban" while keeping a straight face, hence the weasel wording of "she has always said she is not a gun banner."

Lesson No. 4: Believe actions, not words. Tyrants are consummate liars.

[monkeyshine]

Well, did she break a law or didn't she?

[the]

In my opinion, based upon reading the applicable statutes, she did not break any law.

Gross hypocrite, yes. Criminal, no.

See this post.

[glc1173@aol.com]

"In my opinion, based upon reading the applicable statutes, she did not break any law."

If Sarah Brady had heard that Charleton Heston had bought his adult son a rifle this way, Sarah Brady would be the first one yelling for him to be prosecuted. And, if any agency then said Heston hadn't done anything illegal, Sarah Brady would be the first one calling for a new law to make such a sale illegal.

Scandals of antigun politicians and activists

[monkeyshine]

Thanks for the enlightened post. A gift is not a sale.

Is this only applicable in DE?

[Shooter 2.5]

"However, despite the newspaper retraction, Alan Gottlieb of the CCRKBA told CNSNews.com that his group is going to proceed with its request to the BATF and is going a step further. "

It's like watching lemmings march to the sea. I suppose trying to tell a gun rights group that they're supposed to be for gun rights is out of the question.

[uncbob]

I still have doubts if she even did it

I think she is trying to dive a wedge between the hunters and EVIL handgun owners.

she has stated on TOO MANY occasions she would want ALL guns banned .

I think this is a smoke up the gazoo job

[the]

Some do, some don't. In fact, many other parts of the Delaware statutes refer to "transfer" instead of "sale", so the distinction is internally evident.

Many states still allow private party sales, and all other forms of transfers, without a background check. This is what the gun-grabbers typically refer to as the "Gun Show Loophole."

[Joe Brower]

Gross hypocrite, yes. Criminal, no.

I have to agree with this assessment of Sarah Brady and this situation.

Last night NRA President Wayne LaPierre was on FOX's Hannity and Colmes, talking about immigration policy and national ID proposals, and towards the end Hannity brought up this incident. Wayne looked mighty uncomfortable, and was very careful not to go anywhere with the insinuations that a crime had been committed, which was good. But when Hannity even soft-balled him a comment of how at the very least this was extremely hypocritical, Wayne didn't even agree to that, falling back into his well-rehearsed "We have to focus on the criminals" shtick.

All in all, WP's performance was terribly lame.