[wilco200]

Let me summarize. This guy hates guns. So he goes to NH to try and prove that it's too easy to buy guns. Unfortunately, the laws in place prevent him from buying one. So, he conspires with someone else to break the law in order to prove that there are no laws.

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.

[RKV]

Hang ‘em high.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No sympathy from here.

[Clam Digger]

In January I wrote about a 14-year-old boy who was gunned down on Bowdoin Street. Not a word of outrage from this crowd.

It wasn't a legal gun owner, i'm sure, but this smarmy little puke would never say that.

[Centurion2000]

Actually he didn't break the law.

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.

[caver]

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.

[wastedyears]

Ping to self for later.

[Graybeard58]

[sic]

What's that for?

[Horatio Gates]

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

[dread78645]

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. ...

Coincidence or not, you decide, two ATF agents and a Manchester, N.H., cop visited Belair at his work the same day. They had a search warrant and a tape of the radio interview. They wanted to know about the gun, Rosenthal, and me. Belair told them the gun was at home; they went there later in the day, and confiscated it.

Maybe this p*ssy doesn't understand: That's what happens when you attempt a straw purchase!

Do'h

[pabianice]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1866702/posts

[MarkL]

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

[coloradan]

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.

[Sir Hailstone]

Prime example of a straw purchase and the BATFE should make example of this liberal creep. Typical lib too, someone who opposed his viewpoint and he dumpster dives and finds an 20+ year old income tax problem which was settled.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

“I’m afraid of guns”. Enough said...

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

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.

[beltfed308]

Count yourself as a target of the ATF a$$hat! After all ignorance of the law is no excuse.

[ObadiahLynch]

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.. ???

[Teacher317]

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)

[Teacher317]

How many other inanimate objects strike fear into the hearts of people?

[Daffynition]

Steve Bailey is a Globe columnist. He can be reached at bailey@globe.com or at 617-929-2902.

Let him know what you think. I just did.