Posted on 07/20/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by wilco200
There is an epidemic of handgun violence in Boston's poorest neighborhoods, and the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is investigating me? Consider this my confession. I plead guilty to offending the loony gun lobby.
In the likely event you missed this alleged story, here are the facts. You be the judge. Twenty months ago, a lifetime in columnist time, I wrote in this space about going to a gun show in New Hampshire. The idea was to see how easy it would be to buy a handgun just across the border from Massachusetts, which has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. The answer: not very hard at all....
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Now he's running scared because law abiding gun owners want him prosecuted under the laws he says don't exist, which actually do exist.
Lib reasoning at it's finest.
A question for BS Bailey - So, how many Boston gangbanger drug thugs did you see at that family gun show in NH?
This guy needs to be made an example.
Hang ‘em high.
It wasn't a legal gun owner, i'm sure, but this smarmy little puke would never say that.
We shopped till we dropped. Someone beat us to the used grenade launcher (price: $190), but it took Belair, a New Hampshire resident and licensed gun owner, less than 20 minutes to complete the purchase of a trashy little .38-caliber revolver, perfect for a night out in Dorchester. The gun, which retails for $349, was bargain-priced at $240, which I had given to Belair. (And, of course, expensed to the Globe.)
Belair could have bought 100 guns in tax-free, no-limit New Hampshire that day, and I could have put them in my trunk and driven (illegally) home. That was exactly the point I was making. That is not what I did. Belair took the gun with him; I'm afraid of guns.
He didn't actually break the law. He just expensed 250 bucks to his company to cover the cost of the $$$ he gave to someone else for buying a handgun.
This guy would be cheering if one of “loony gun lobby” were to get in legal trouble. He’s trying to say he didn’t do anything wrong. Laws are laws, even for liberals and gun grabbers. I hope the ATF make an example of this fool.
Ping to self for later.
What's that for?
Maybe he can buy some “gun law breaking offsets” to make up for it...
Think “The King & I”...
This ass is too arrogant to figure he may need to exercise his right to remain silent. Heres to hoping he gets hoisted on his own petard
“gun law breaking offsets”
Those are for liberals only!
Maybe this p*ssy doesn't understand: That's what happens when you attempt a straw purchase!
Do'h
I also liked the part about how he could have bought “a hundred” guns, but didn’t. What he left out (and probably is completely unaware of) is that had he bought 2 or more guns at the same time, the dealer would have had to notify the ATF, and would have forwarded that information to the agency.
This guy’s an idiot... He committed a crime, admitted it in print and on the radio, and now he’s upset because there’s a criminal investigation of him... I wonder if he would have been upset about being investigated by the feds had he been “reporting” on kiddie porn, and been caught with explicit photos of little children engaged in sexual acts! The sheer gall and elitist attitudes of the people who infest the media is staggering!
Mark
I think part of his punishment should be to bow down before GOA (because the NRA supports these sorts of laws) and begs and pleads for them to lobby for the repeal of the law that is going to send him to prison. And frankly, I hope the GOA is successful in doing so, such that all people, whether gun enthusiasts or hypocritical gun hating liberals alike, can freely buy guns across state lines without facing federal charges.
And the writer that expensed the 250.00.
He didn't buy the gun he merely paid for the gun.
There's something happin'n here.
What it is ain't exactly clear....
Correct me if I am wrong. I read the article. The reporter wants to buy a handgun in NH. Since he is from MA he could not so he gave money to a second party to buy a handgun. The reporter paid for the gun, but the second party filled out the paperwork and kept the handgun. Is that a straw purchase? If the second party gave the reporter the gun, it would be, but according to the story the reporter did not keep the gun, thus at worst he financed a gun buy (I don’t think that is illegal).
Conspiracy to circumvent the law? He may have given it away, but while he had possession of it he was still a Massachusetts resident with a Hew Hamphire conspirator who could, at any time, change his mind and refuse the gun.
In such a case the Mass. guy would have found himself an exile until such time as he committed the same act against which he rails: individual sale of a personal weapon.
Now, can a Massachusetts resident’s sale of a personal weapon be fit under Massachusetts’ law?
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