Posted on 07/20/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by wilco200
See post #27
Doofus columnists are exempt from the laws us mere mortals must observe.
Just saying.
Well, then, why the column?
He's got nothing to worry about.
You don’t know, unless we all care the “BOX” Lie Detector with us...
OTOH, if he's telling all the world he bought the gun it's certainly worth asking him some questions.
Maybe the guy is just a crappy journalist who doesn't understand the meaning of words. When he confesses that, all will be OK.
Ee-Legal.
I don't expect BATFE to do anything here except go through the motions. They're on his side. Only to the 'bad people' do they threaten ten years in prison and a $250,000 fine for the awful crime of having a $0.35 Bulgarian-made plastic grip on a firearm rather that a domestically produced but otherwise identical $7.99 plastic grip.
Besides, what's the guy complaining about? Isn't the gun law and the Federal oversight agency just doing their job?
Absent a pattern of straw purchases, the dealer doesn't have to. The onus is on the buyer.
Apparently a taped radio interview sused out Belair, who's now on the hook for 5 years in jail and $250,000.
How is it a demonstration that the “system is broke”?
Beats me. Maybe you can ask Mr. Bailey at bailey@globe.com?
sounds like ATF’s favourite charge.. “conspiracy to commit federal firearms laws violations.”
Looks more like a “gift” than a straw buy to me, but he deserved to be investigated because he’s a moron. Just sorry he didn’t have to take it home with him to show his boss what he spent the $ for, so he could have been arrested as well as investigated.
Not really - the original purchase was for Bailey. That was a straw purchase, plain and simple - and illegal as hell.
When *after-the-fact* he decided not to keep the gun, that did not change the original purchase. He did NOT drive up to New Hampshire in order to buy his friend a gun. He went up to New Hampshire to make a straw purchase - which he did. Otherwise there would be no story. Pudding = proof.
Dicking around with gun laws like this is just plain stupid - and he is guilty as hell. No point complaining to the publisher - that Stalinist Marty Baron or whatever, will defend the guy to his last breath.
He did not drive up to New Hampshire in order to make a gift. The transaction was not undertaken in order to make a gift. The "gift" was after the fact, and solely a matter of convenience so he did not have to touch the nasty old gun. The "gift" feature had nothing to do with his intent or the transaction itself.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ping for later
Looks straw purchase to me. His own admissions 1. he hates guns 2. He provided the money and purchased the firearm in his name and handed it to the 3rd party. That’s a straw purchase.
Re-read the article. He provided the $, giving it to the person who was a resident of N.H., who purchased the gun and kept it. Had he taken the gun purchased by the other guy, it would have been a straw purchase. All he did was give the guy $, thus, a gift.
He deserved to be investigated. Of course, he never would have been had he not written the column telling what he did. His purpose, as stated, may have been to show how easy it was to buy a gun out-of-state and bring it back, but that isn’t what he did. He gave a legal resident of N.H. the $, and that person purchased and kept the gun in N.H. As far as I know, there is no law against giving someone $ to legally buy a gun for himself, i.e., a gift. He may have had the intent to commit a crime, but he didn’t follow through, and because of that, I don’t believe he could be convicted.
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