Posted on 07/20/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by wilco200
“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,”
Plus...either the guy is math deprived, or New Hampshire has established a longer day than the rest of us.
20 minutes per purchase X 100 ( he could have bought) = 2000 minutes = 33.33 hours.
I’m moving to New Hampshire. I need those extra 9.33 hours a day to get things done. :)
So, he made the point that he could break the law? Big deal. He says he did not actually break the law. Why? Because he did not want to go to jail. So, his point is I could have broken the law, but I did not, so we have to make more laws so it would be harder for me not to break the law??? This guy is blinded by his admitted hoplophobia. He needs psychiatric help.
No thanks, some days are already way too long!
I thought head line writers had “artistic license”.
“I’m afraid of guns”. Enough said...
This guy is flat insane. He says “Intimidation is the stock in trade of the National Rifle Association,” but his example is the intimidation done by the ATF. Yep, he’s insane. Liberalism IS a mental disorder.
Second, “bargain-priced at $240, which I had given to Belair” and (And, of course, expensed to the Globe.)
Bailey and Belair both committed a crime. Belair knew of the plan for the straw purchase, was given the money by Bailey and therefore Culpable. Since the Boston Globe reimbursed Bailey as an expense, and I would think they wanted a receipt, they are also Culpable.
So the gun was in the possession of Belair, who is to say where it was from the time these criminals left the gun show and the ATF showed up at Belair's door. Maybe it was rented to a Boston resident.
“I’m afraid of guns”. Enough said...
This is the kind of guy that needs to be taken to the range for some weapon familiarization training. You know how many people I’ve taken to the range who trembled when they first picked up the gun? Through proper training, they were taught that the only thing you really have to fear about guns is being inexperienced in their use.
I’m afraid of paper cuts. They sting REAL bad. I think I will stop handling paper.
Loser.
This is goofy. The guy goes out of state, can’t buy a gun, so he gives a legal state resident money to buy a gun, which the legal state resident then keeps? And this is illegal somehow?
I always kind of thought if I made a “straw purchase” part of the deal was I took possession of the gun. If the legal purchaser of the gun kept the gun.. ???
The financing isn't. It's the false statement made by Belair that's illegal.
The reporter, who is not eligible to purchase a gun, initiated the purchase thru Belair.
When Belair put his signature on the 4473, he made a false claim that he was the 'true purchaser' of the firearm. It doesn't matter if he transfers it to the reporter or keeps it, it's a still a straw purchase.
[T]he law against straw purchases is based on the 1968 federal statute making it unlawful "for any person in connection with the acquisition of a firearm from a … licensed dealer" to "knowingly make any false or fictitious oral or written statement … intended or likely to deceive such … dealer … with respect to any fact material to the lawfulness of the sale …" (18 U.S. Code 92(a)(6)).-- United States v. Dollar (25 F.Supp.2d 1320)
“A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” — Sigmund Freud, General Introduction to Psychoanlysis (1952)
He is an idiot to claim “Dare to say we need fewer, not more guns in this country, dare to say we need a uniform system for monitoring gun sales in this country and you become a target to be hunted down.” He is being hunted down for doing something illegal and then bragging about it. What is happening to him is exactly what they complain about wanting to have stopped and prosecuted.
Liberal Thinking:
If I blow up this building full of people to prove that Bush has not made us safer, the Feds would never charge me with a crime since I am a reporter uncovering the ‘truth’.
Sooooo.... a licensed owner to bought a gun in NH... now how does this show a problem? Did he register it in the wimp’s name? (Straw purchase)
How many other inanimate objects strike fear into the hearts of people?
Okay, but how will a firearms retailer EVER know if someone is lying on that form? How is it a demonstration that the “system is broke”?
Let him know what you think. I just did.
See my post #20
see my post #20
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