 Bambo |
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.
Heck, it's so bad that even PETA is suing over a deer smashing up their car!
Actually, this is not typical. The news motto, "if it bleeds, it leads" is applicable here. And news organizations do not cover typical stories. When was the last time you heard of a news story about a mom picking up the groceries, or a kid doing their homework, or a motorist driving courteously to work?
Source please…….
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Eaker
"Innocent" animals?? Do you have any idea how many other animals any given bear, raccoon, etc. kills in just one year??
TO me it's just a bunch of macho men picking on a defenseless animal.
"All God's critters have knives."
Some sport.
And oversized overpadded overpaid gorillas having meetings for three hours (aka football) is any better?
I wish the deer came equiped with their own shotguns.
Apparently you're unaware of the number of hunters who get MAULED each year by deer. That's it, pick & choose your statistics....
Otherwise, your condemning sport hunting is hypocritical and your opinion is, therefore, irrelevant.
-Sarah Brady, The National Educator, January 1994, page 3
Curious Sungirl - why such hard anti-hunting beliefs?
So not only did she possibly break the law with a strawman purchase, but she bought a *gasp* powerful sniper rifle? Why would her son even need such a thing, anyway?
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Bambo |
Something you need to work on.
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