Posted on 03/22/2002 11:41:39 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Move over, Rosie O'Donnell: The newest "celebrity" anti-gun hypocrite is Sarah Brady.
Mrs. Brady "bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 - and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements," the New York Daily News reported Thursday.
Some people will do anything to tell a book. No doubt to increase interest in what otherwise would be a boring memoir, the gun rights opponent writes that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, "complete with scope and safety lock," at a gun shop in Lewes, Del.
"I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."
According to her book, the store ran federal Brady Law and state background checks with much ado. But the book suggests she did not have her son checked, as required by Delaware law.
Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori Sitler said the purchase could be illegal if Mrs. Brady did not say who she was buying the gun for and submit his "name, rank and serial number" for an inquiry.
"You can't purchase a gun for someone else," Sitler told the Daily News. "That would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got a problem right there."
Gun rights advocates were surprised to hear of Mrs. Brady's antics.
"We hope that it's innocuous and there's been no laws violated," said James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for National Rifle Association. "It's obviously interesting that Sarah would be purchasing firearms of any kind for anybody, given her championing of restrictive guns laws for everyone."
Seniors United Supporting the Second Amendment told NewsMax.com it was asking Delaware and the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate "what appears to be a criminal act" by Mrs. Brady.
"Sarah Brady is infamous for her radical anti-Second Amendment positions and her work to strip the citizens if the United States of their civil rights. She is the head of an extremist group that is working to gut the Bill of Rights," the group said in a statement.
"Sarah Brady is typical of the anti-civil rights radicals," noted John Bender, executive director of SUSSA. "She wants to ban private transfers of guns for everyone but her and her elitist friends. If a black mother in a Delaware public housing apartment did this she would already be charged with a crime. I’m wondering if Delaware has different enforcement standards for rich white women.”
The group concluded: "Sarah Brady is one of the leaders in the anti-civil rights movement’s attempt to make all private transfers of firearms illegal. Along with other extremists she pushed Congress to make this type of straw purchase illegal. Law enforcement should show her what her work has accomplished."
Mrs. Brady became a media-adored opponent of the Second Amendment after her husband, James, White House press secretary to President Ronald Reagan, was shot in a 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan.
Probably, unless he shoots and kills mommy, than daddy will sue Remington.
Yes I'm sure you go to hunting banquets and archery club meetings and ducks unlimited meetings and spend a lot of time in the field with hunters to find out how they behave.
But Mikey, they can't scream in pain or look cute so it doesn't matter, remember? The wrongness of killing a given animal is in direct relation to the aesthetically pleasing factor of the animal.
seriously though the case could be made by the PETA nuts that plants don't possess a central nervous system and so don't feel pain or have emotions like the innocent animals...
*sigh* but you know... I garden, and I feel bad when I have been nursing seedlings along, find I have too many, and leave them to die if I can't fit them into my garden. I really do feel guilty sometimes! Isn't that funny? However I continue to act upon reality. ;-)
You need better friends. I suggest you come up north for bow season and spend a couple of afternoons in a tree stand with me...and observe how a true 'hunter' appreciates the wild.
There's a joke there...
Killing animals for sport should not be taught to children...period.
Yes, I eat what I kill. My son loves venison, although he has yet to take a deer. He loves the woods and loves the time we spend together in the pursuit of squirrels and deer. Going to introduce him to rabbit, pheasant and duck hunting this year if I can undo all the total spoiling my wife has done to our Labrador and our Beagle.
There's almost nothing better than squirrel pot pie or roast pheasant....
LOL!! SInce when do hunters obey the bag limits?? NOT where I came from ..Western New York. The Grounds dept where I worked would deliberately drive the state owned van into the deer grazing throughout the acres of grounds and pretend it was a car accident and the deers fault....they did this on the second shift of course and were hardly seen. THen I continually heard about the plans to get away with more deer than were allowed...all kinds of deceiptful plans.... THen there is this guy who just last year here in florida told me about his hunting fatherinlaw who said he was going hunting and was talking about getting the PROTECTED cougars...he said they were definetley coming home with one of those because "THERE AREN"T MANY OF THEM LEFT YA KNOW!!" TYPICAL! Have you been out in the real world?
May I remind you that you are looking as silly to us as we are to you right now?
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