[Uncle Hal]

The California AD, Lockyer, is very anti gun. I am sure he has a larger agenda than just stopping gun sales at Wal-Mart. I would guess the anti gun crowd wants to stop gun sales at all Wal-Marts nation wide.

[DakotaGator]

Death by a thousand cuts.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Along with numerous paperwork errors, some guns were released before background checks were finished or fingerprints were taken.

Federal law specifically states that if the background check is not completed within a specific period of time the firearm can be released.

And the whole idea of the "paperwork" is to make it too time-consuming and expensive to sell guns to anybody.

[Fraulein]

ping

[DonPaulJonesII]

To hell with California. The ONLY way that I would EVER cross that border would be as part of an armed force intending to do a little regime change. You know, reinstate the Costitution as the law of the land...

[lelio]

"They just kept going to Wal-Mart stores and finding these violations. We don't believe they are isolated. We believe it's a systematic problem."
That's a little misleading to say that ALL Wall-Mart stores were doing this as they only went to six of them. But still it doesn't sound like Wall-Mart is running a very tight ship. Well unless you're trying to unionize the workforce.

produced a report showing that 10,000 convicted felons and others were sold firearms by various retailers while background checks were pending or delayed.
And whose fault is that the background checks take forever? There has to be a time limit for the background check or else the government took theoretically take years to do one on people it doesn't like.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Lockyer is anti-gun for sure, however I know that some Wal-Mart employees aren't the smartest bunch of kids. Most of this is probably human error.

Good Lord, I'm defending Wal-Mart. I think I hear a stampede of moose running down my street...

[Cold Heat]

All American retail stores should pull out of Kalifornicate.

It is no longer feasible to operate in a communist regime.

[antaresequity]

"Public safety is severly jeopardized when gun dealers provide firearms to people who are prohibited from possessing, much less purchasing them," Lockyer said in the statement.

I wonder if this Communist considered that denying the rights of law abiding citizens to own firearms also 'jeapordizes safety'

Of Course Not

[Fraulein]

"They just kept going to Wal-Mart stores and finding these violations. We don't believe they are isolated. We believe it's a systematic problem."

It's the gun laws that are the systematic problem. And there's so many of them (especially in Kalifornia) that it's virtually impossible for there not to be a violation of sort.

[Hank Rearden]

A required scanner needed to process identification cards was missing at the store, resulting in 45 violations. The store failed to obtain a fingerprint from gun buyers 54 times and twice illegally delivered a firearm to someone during the 10-day waiting period, Lockyer's office said. State law also prohibits handing over guns to people if they haven't picked up their firearm within 30 days of buying it, even if they pass the background check. Some of the stores were nevertheless ignoring this monthlong window and giving guns to buyers, Lockyer's office said.

Lotta damn hoops to jump through to exercise a Constitutional right. I'm so glad I abandoned CA years and years ago.

[William Tell]

From the article: "The store failed to obtain a fingerprint from gun buyers 54 times and twice illegally delivered a firearm to someone during the 10-day waiting period, Lockyer's office said. "

Numerous failures to infringe the right to keep and bear arms.

[PatrioticAmerican]

They also sell to illegal aliens, which is also against the law. I have personally witnessed Mexicans using only Mexican IDs buy guns at Wal-Mart. This happened three times. Of course, I reported this three times, but no onee really gives a damn.