In The Interest Of Investigation
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
Democrats keep telling me how easy it is to buy guns, easier than buying fresh vegetables.
I have cash. I’m a willing buyer. How do I find one of those sellers?
I’m not worried about the background check – I could pass – I just want to buy one of those “off-the-street” pistols all the cool kids have.
I presume the sellers are mostly criminals. Sadly, I spend all my time around bureaucrats. I’m like those guys in “Office Space” trying to find a money-launderer . . . I don’t know any criminals, or even where to look for them.
Any SITD readers know any criminals looking to make a quick buck selling me a pistol for cash? Or I’d take an assault rifle, if that’s more convenient. Either one.
Joe Doakes
I wish some of the puling lower vertebrates that make these claims – like Heather Martens – would actually go out with a video camera and try to prove it.
That would be pretty interesting.
May 4th, 2015 at 7:53 am
One of the most irritating things that the anti-gun crowd does is repeat, ad nauseum, that there are no laws regulating the purchase of firearms. They say it again and again, and the so-called journalists who report their words never call them on it.
It would be roughly the same, coming from the opposite side, if pro-life spokespeople, at every opportunity, told journalists that there were absolutely no laws against killing babies by anyone, anywhere. None! You see a baby you don’t like, kill it! The law can’t touch you! And the reporter just nods.
May 4th, 2015 at 11:10 am
Hey PM – you mean you could get prosecuted for killing a baby? Other than Gosnell I can’t remember any prosecutions for late term abortions. Hell, the woman in Colorado who cut a baby from the mother’s womb can’t be prosecuted for the baby’s death.
Acknowledging that “a lot of people” wanted him to file homicide charges against Lane for the death of the fetus, Garnett said that those charges were “not possible under Colorado law without proof of a live birth.”
May 4th, 2015 at 11:11 am
Here is the link to the WaPo article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/03/27/no-murder-charges-in-attack-on-pregnant-woman-in-colorado-da-says/
May 4th, 2015 at 11:35 am
“Any SITD readers know any criminals looking to make a quick buck selling me a pistol for cash? Or I’d take an assault rifle, if that’s more convenient. Either one.”
Joe, I don’t know of any these criminals so I can’t help you there. A thought occurred to me that if you did come across a criminal he’d probably just point the gun at you and take your cash, I think it’s in their job description.
May 4th, 2015 at 1:38 pm
Reminds me of when GuvJimBeam, his cosine wave like support for medical mary-j-wauna headed down, noted to the Mom with the disease stricken kid that it was his understanding that Weed was readily available on nearly every street corner in every town in Minnesota. Around the same time a neighbor had an elderly grandfather that was experiencing the ravages of chemo in his ultimately futile battle with cancer. Grandpa had stopped eating which only worsened his condition so my friend and his brother plotted to get some Herb to help the old boy. If the song “It Was Always So Easy to Find an Unhappy Woman, ‘Til I Started Lookin’ For Mine” could be re-configured to the search for dope, it would have been their song. They wound up going to a guy who knew a guy who knew a ‘dealer’ that was convinced they were narcs, so he videoed them affirming they were not narcs while he asked them continually if they were narcs.
May 4th, 2015 at 1:43 pm
Post Script To the Story Above… In their quest to find marijuana, my neighbor and his brother offended roughly a half dozen people by asking them if they knew (based on their appearance and/or job) if they knew where the two could score some weed. So be careful who you ask JD.
May 4th, 2015 at 1:48 pm
Sef, so the dealer believes that B.S. that cops have to tell you if they’re cops otherwise it’s entrapment. Gotta love dumb criminals.
May 4th, 2015 at 3:42 pm
One really ought to corner Martens and have her Google grocery stores in Minneapolis, and then Google gun stores there. One gun store, and you can’t live more than a mile from a grocery store in the city. Do it on the prime time TV news show, so the whole state gets shown in 30 seconds what an idiot Martens is.
May 4th, 2015 at 3:58 pm
A 7/11 on every street corner and it’s a “food desert.” One gun store in the city limits and the place is “awash with guns.”
May 4th, 2015 at 4:55 pm
“Awash” is a relative term, PM.
Saint Paul has dozens of FFL holders, but not one single gun shop. There is nowhere in the entire city to legally purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer; hence, my desire to buy one from an “undocumented firearms dealer.”
Compared to St. Paul, Minneapolis is awash in gun shops, indeed.
May 4th, 2015 at 5:13 pm
Your point is taken, Joe Doakes.
My wife wants a handgun for her birthday because I am away a lot and we live in a rural area. They make you jump through flaming hoops here in 96785 to simply buy a firearm for home protection, much less carry one. Hawaii is not a gun friendly state.
I would like to take every person concerned about so-called “food deserts” and drop them in Alta Cama for a week or so they can correct their understanding of the term “food desert.”
May 4th, 2015 at 8:33 pm
I do so want to see the journowaste announcing a trip to the mean streets of Las Vegas, with, say, $1,000 to buy one of those infinite-capacity handguns that shoot so much better held sideways. Mmmm… money, wimpy camera person, journowaste… Use a cheap camera so the video survives, okay?
May 5th, 2015 at 8:43 am
I thought Kocielski was finally forced out of Mpls? Or am I misremembering? (that is a distinct possibility….)
May 5th, 2015 at 11:03 am
Their website is still up: http://www.creditcardshotgun.com/
I should see if they’re still there, maybe throw in a trip to Uncle Hugos Science Fiction Bookstore, a block away. And in that neighborhood, I can get some use out of my shoulder holster plus sample real Somali food.
Good idea, Bill C, thanks!