{"id":71946,"date":"2019-08-14T05:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71946"},"modified":"2019-08-13T07:31:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T12:31:35","slug":"but-if-the-background-check-were-only-more-mandatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=71946","title":{"rendered":"But If The Background Check Were Only <i>More<\/i> Mandatory&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>After the shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Democrats repeated demands for universal background checks. <br>The Dayton shooter didn&#8217;t buy his gun,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/dayton-ohio-shooter-friend-bought-armor-firearm-prosecutors\">he had a friend buy it for him<\/a>.\u00a0 It was a straw purchase, which has long been illegal under state and federal law.\u00a0 <br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m going to guess the straw purchase happened in a jurisdiction where neither the federal nor state prosecutors have shown there to be any consequences for straw purchases in a long, long time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the shooting in Dayton, Ohio, Democrats repeated demands for universal background checks. The Dayton shooter didn&#8217;t buy his gun,\u00a0he had a friend buy it for him.\u00a0 It was a straw purchase, which has long been illegal under state and federal law.\u00a0 Joe Doakes And I&#8217;m going to guess the straw purchase happened in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71947,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71946\/revisions\/71947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}