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.
Whoa! You must have lived in a place where the guys are dumb that they wouldn't want to be alone with a teenage girl in the woods. ;)
Me, I'll gladly go to the woods with a teenage girl, of course, if she has a rifle, I get to have a rifle too. ;)
What kind of squirrels? I have read that tree squirrels are fine to eat, but ground squirrels are only good for crow bait or hawk food. Same thing with cottontail rabbits and jack rabbits.
Have you heard different?
Minor correction. THEY ARE being used as a backdoor registration scheme. Just ask the FBI pencilnecks who tried to get Ashcroft to turn the info over from...the database...that ain't supposed to exist.
I did go fishing a lot with a couple of college students my folks trusted that went to our church. I had a great elderly guy that took me for a while until his relatives started making comments - not believing I could be going with him because I actually LIKED those activities. So he had to quit taking me. I was mortified and embarrassed. Nothing was ever the same and he felt terrible about it all too (he was like an uncle to me - a very good mentor).
Then I was desperate because he had said he would take me deer hunting. I had already bought a tag and mom wouldn't let me go alone (had to borrow a gun cuz mom wouldn't buy me one and of course I couldn't.). My band teacher (female) offered to take me and then said no at the last minute and got mad at me for being upset! I just couldn't win. Finally I think my pastor must have said something to mom about how responsible I was with guns (he had walked with me a couple of times in the woods) and she let me go alone. I saw a lot of deer but never got a shot. a couple years later I married my nonhunting (at that time) hubby and hunting was put on hold for a while as kids came. Now I am back into it. My first deer was with a bow in 2001 - and I got two that year.
Part of what drives me to hunt is what drives me to fish... only I can't eat fish (I go into anaphylactic shock). I can handle fish and my hands get a little itchy where skin is broken, but that's all. I have always wanted to be able to live off the land and hunting is a big part of that.
No no she can try to tell us that. I fully support her right to say it. Just as I support yours and my right to laugh in amazement at her keen ability to miss the logic train.
That and they thought I was ugly. Now that I couldn't argue with.
Interesting that you rail against those of us who simply take meat eating (something done by 99% of the world's population) seriously and honestly, and proceed to concoct and promote gratuitous murder for sport. It truly takes a sociopathic mind to make such a leap.
I highly recommend you read "On Hunting" by Ortega y Gasset, even if you are so remarkably & rabidly against mankind's oldest activity. Perhaps it will not change your mind, but maybe you will learn some respect for what you plainly do not understand.
I look forward to seeing the pics ... and I'll expect a care package fulla jerky after hunting season this year ..... :)
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Do you have any idea how much damage cats do to wildlife? They kill nesting birds and other small animals for fun. They usually play with their victims before they kill them. Most outdoorsmen will kill cats they find roaming in the wild in the interest of protecting wild life.
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