[jocon307]

Here is the reason given, from the article “Bernard Miller says he was told that’s because another African-American man with the last name Miller, but a different first name, had tried to buy the same gun at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Matthews and been denied.”

This seems pretty silly in a variety of ways. First of all Miller is a very common name. Secondly if I want to be sneaky and get someone to buy a gun for me am I going to pick somebody with the same last name as mine? I could see if the two men had the exact same name you might well think they were the same guy, but I don’t see why you’d think these 2 have anything to do with each other.

[Beagle8U]

“Here is the reason given, from the article “Bernard Miller says he was told that’s because another African-American man with the last name Miller, but a different first name, had tried to buy the same gun at a Dick’s Sporting Goods store in Matthews and been denied.”

Did anyone consider the fact that both of the stores likely have security cameras and the salesman in the second store was able to view the tape from the first store?

That denied sale tape, and the flagged name used, showed that it was in fact the same person?

The article says they were there for 40 min., plenty of time to check the tape and list of flagged names.