Not Sexy
By Mitch Berg
Prosecuting “straw buyers“ – people with clean criminal records who buy firearms and knowingly sell or give them to criminals – isn’t especially “sexy“. No County prosecutor ever got elected to the US Congress, governor, or the state legislature by prosecuting criminals girlfriends, grandmothers, or people running side hustles moving metal to thugs.
It’s gone so far as the US attorney covering Chicago saying, basically, he just doesn’t care.
And we see how that’s worked in Chicago, right?
Hennepin county attorney Mike Freeman has also made it very clear he doesn’t care about straw buyers enough to make it a priority. He clearly doesn’t think it’s much of a problem.
It’s a problem:
And the next Hennepin county attorney is going to be Ryan Winkler, who played a disproportionate role in making sure that state legislation about straw buyers never got heard in the house, and got ruled as non-germane when brought up as amendments by Republicans.
So no, the problem isn’t going away anytime soon.
December 31st, 2021 at 8:08 am
We all know people don’t shoot people. Shots just ring out and bullets strike something. Nothing to see here.
December 31st, 2021 at 8:55 am
Didn’t young Mr Rittenhouse use a “straw buyer” to acquire his firearms?
December 31st, 2021 at 9:03 am
This was a federal prosecution.
December 31st, 2021 at 9:29 am
Rittenhouse. No. That was a lie.
December 31st, 2021 at 10:04 am
I think it is hilarious that Rittenhouse bought his gun with his covid bucks.
December 31st, 2021 at 11:15 am
“Didn’t young Mr Rittenhouse use a “straw buyer” to acquire his firearms?”
No.
December 31st, 2021 at 11:16 am
i”We all know people don’t shoot people. Shots just ring out and bullets strike something.”
Sort of like that SUV in Waukesha
December 31st, 2021 at 11:43 am
Perhaps they’ll prosecute now because they’ve found a pasty patsy to be the poster child, and after which it will be safe to prosecute the girlfriend’s and grandmas.
December 31st, 2021 at 2:42 pm
47?
That’s a lot of baby daddies!
January 4th, 2022 at 4:03 pm
Regarding Rittenhouse, it looks like the feds did decide to try to prosecute the person who bought his gun, and that illustrates the hazards of a law the goverment doesn’t want to enforce–it serves as a bludgeon to attack political opponents of the bureaucracy.
The scariest thing about the matter is that more and more laws seem to be serving as such a bludgeon, as the FBI is dropping more and more obvious open & shut cases.