Posted on 11/22/2022 10:47:52 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The rifle used by the alleged 22-year-old attacker who killed five at Colorado Springs’ Club Q Saturday night was purchased “legally.”
ABC News reported the officials briefed on the investigation into the attack say the attacker “legally purchased” his rifle.
The officials who spoke with ABC News officials also pointed out that the attacker’s “2021 arrest may not have appeared on background checks because the case does not appear to have been adjudicated.”
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On the contrary. This is grist for their gun control mill.
So the localities are not following the laws already on the books, so somehow more laws are going to help?
A couple of the Denver news stations this morning were trying to push that it ‘might’ be a ‘ghost gun’ that was ‘fully automatic’.
Exactly what were the makes and models of the guns used? I’ve read, a long rifle, and AR 15 style but that’s no help.
The fact they were calling it a “long gun” tells me it’s not an AR, because that would trigger them bigly.
I just read Aldrich changed his name just before turning 16, which some saying that is why he was able to get gun:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/club-q-shooting-suspect-changed-name-just-16th-birthday-rcna58365
I heard earlier that is was “AR-like” and chambered in 22LR.
So basically a Pea Shooter trying to look like a BadA@@.
If he purchased a firearm or ammunition while he had pending felony kidnapping and menacing charges against him then he did not purchase the firearm legally. He would be a prohibited person under the federal Gun Control Act and could not legally buy or possess firearms or ammunition unless and until the charges were dismissed. 18 U.S.C. § 922(n) makes it illegal for any person under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year to ship, transport, or receive firearms or ammunition. He most likely lied on his ATF 4473 form, which is also illegal but rarely prosecuted.
I have a novel idea. How about we start enforcing existing gun control laws before enacting new ones?
Yeah well he wouldn’t have been able to had the law been upheld and he was charged for domestic terrorism when he threatened his mother with a bomb- He woudl have been deemed a felon and not able to purchase a gun-
Who allowed him to walk scott free again? $1 says it was a liberal!
You beat me to it.
t also asks, I believe, if you are being treated for a mental problem.
It is a felony, federal, to lie on any question regarding eligibility.
Covid-era catch-and-release.
That was pure speculation. Someone hypothesized that the reporter mixed up “long rifle” and assumed they meant it as a caliber.
So what we have is a people speculating on speculation. Wish we had real reporters.
No bomb was found in the previous incident, making it a misdemeanor. Of course, if they aren’t going to adjudicate (covid?), what difference does it make?
I think the DA is an upstanding guy. They have to weigh costs, and covid turned justice on its head for two years.
The Republican Sheriff of El Paso County Colorado does not agree with ‘red flag’ laws.
I’m assuming the local LEOs have the gun. WTF LEO, what is it??
I think a bigger factor was the DA just dismissing him as another overgrown millennial child, acting out for social media.
Yesterday, I heard on Fox News that the reason Aldrich wasn’t charged was because his mother wouldn’t cooperate with police.
Seems like the only thing that could have been done to remove the gun(s) would have been to get him on a misdemeanor domestic violence charge. If mom wouldn’t cooperate, the DA probably said “screw it.”
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