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Sarah Brady, Gun Criminal?
NEWSMAX ^ | 3/22/02 | Limbacher

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antisecondamendment; banglist; moosewatch; sarahbrady
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1 posted on 03/22/2002 11:41:39 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Yet another hypocrite, not surprised.
2 posted on 03/22/2002 11:46:25 AM PST by Great Dane
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Well, that didn't take long ;)
3 posted on 03/22/2002 11:46:36 AM PST by ScreamingFist
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Typical elitist law-breaking hypocrite.

Eaker

4 posted on 03/22/2002 11:47:07 AM PST by Eaker
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Breaking the gun laws in Delaware? Her son owns a weapon? What next? Hypocrite is too nice a word to use.
5 posted on 03/22/2002 11:48:04 AM PST by oldironsides
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Gawd! What a hypocrit...Populus vult decipi ergo decipiatur (L) for "The public wishes to be fooled, therefore let it be fooled!"
6 posted on 03/22/2002 11:48:09 AM PST by meandog
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
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.

Oh....It has a lock. < / sarcasm >

7 posted on 03/22/2002 11:50:07 AM PST by chemicalman
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Another case of "Privledges for Me but Not For Thee" AKA Diane Feinswine. I hope they find reason to charge her, HCI is dying a slow agonising death.
8 posted on 03/22/2002 11:53:10 AM PST by chuknospam
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Law enforcement should show her what her work has accomplished."

Yep. They should lock up her butt in jail.

9 posted on 03/22/2002 11:55:05 AM PST by pray4liberty
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Yes! Lock her up with the other scum!!
10 posted on 03/22/2002 11:56:00 AM PST by Destructor
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
It's a left wing sport. Create the law, then break it. Shades of Bill Clinton. First sign the violence against women act, then commit perjury to try and avoid its reach.
11 posted on 03/22/2002 11:56:53 AM PST by HaveGunWillTravel
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
"I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that ____, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."

If the word "rifle" weren't in the blank, I might have sworn that hubby, Jim, finally sported a woody!

12 posted on 03/22/2002 11:59:25 AM PST by meandog
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Limbacher cracks me up!

He basically changes the title of other people's articles, adds a few "Newsmax has learned..." statements to it, and then puts his name on it.

I'd say that he was ripping off his employer if he wasn't his own boss!

13 posted on 03/22/2002 11:59:30 AM PST by dead
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
I thought this story would fade into the sunset....but I was wrong! This is getting some momentum

Ashland, Missouri

14 posted on 03/22/2002 12:00:56 PM PST by rface
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To: HaveGunWillTravel
Uh-oh... It's a left wing sport? So now there are laws to which the 'sporting purposes' principle must apply?
15 posted on 03/22/2002 12:01:18 PM PST by real saxophonist
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
A .30-06 in one's car is now 'packing heat'?
16 posted on 03/22/2002 12:03:22 PM PST by real saxophonist
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection
Sarah Brady, gunrunner. Kinda has a nice ring to it.

Come on folks: gun laws are for the little people! That's not sarcasm: that's how it really works. The rule of law is long dead and buried.

17 posted on 03/22/2002 12:03:26 PM PST by alpowolf
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To: real saxophonist
What is so sporting about killing innocent animals?? TO me it's just a bunch of macho men picking on a defenseless animal. Some sport. I wish the deer came equiped with their own shotguns.
18 posted on 03/22/2002 12:05:13 PM PST by Sungirl
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To: bang_list
Bang for another hypocrite.
19 posted on 03/22/2002 12:11:55 PM PST by coloradan
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To: Sungirl
Your lack of knowledge of RKBA issues is preventing you from seeing the real picture. It's not about hunting, it's about disarming the public, putting the public at the mercy of the state and dependent on the state so as to better control the unwashed masses.
20 posted on 03/22/2002 12:11:56 PM PST by gracie1
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