So you read the headline of this Strib article, and you think perhaps straw-purchased guns are turning up more often, or maybe that some people out there with clean criminal records are going out to Fleet Farm, picking a gun from the display case, conducting a completely legal and above board purchase, and then embarking on the life of crime.
But then you read the lead, and it’s…
…about stolen guns being used in crime.
That were purchased legally, at one point or another.
I’m not sure if they’ve thought this through.
Unless some enterprising gang conducts a heist from the loading dock add Glock USA, literally every firearm available in the United States was legally purchased at one point or another.
“Even the Mauser KAR 98K grandpa brought back from World War II?“
Well, yeah, the German government purchased it from Mauser in the 1930s or 1940s, and give it to some soldier, from whom your grandfather got it by means fair or foul.
I don’t mean to make light of what is, honestly, a fairly scabrous campaign on the part of big left, the anti-gun movement and the media; the latest chanting point is “there’s a very fine line between legal guns, and legal gun owners, and criminals“.
Of course, with the owners, there is almost invariably not. The overwhelming majority of people who commit crimes with guns have significant criminal records and aren’t allowed to touch, much less own, a firearm.
With the guns? I mean, as long as you gloss over theft (or the federal felony of straw purchasing), it’s both technically true and complete balderdash.
When you consider that orc narrative is “it is not the criminal that kills but the gun”, then this article makes perfect sense, no?
I’ll take their sniveling seriously after Hunter Biden is tried and convicted of felony fraudulent arms purchasing. I don’t care if he doesn’t spend any time in jail, he certainly deserves to, but he enjoys an immunity the rest of don’t get. Just the fact that he will have a felony beef on his sheet will do.
The majority of gun deaths are suicides, so the problem should eventually solve itself.
^ Every morning, when you look into the mirror, remember that you’ll always be that ignorant, lying asshole. You’ll never get any better; only worse. Everyone is laughing at you, not with you. You have no friends.
A .380 is a nice gift to get yourself this lonely Christmas. Remember: the best way to see if it’s loaded is to just look down the barrel.
I don’t know that this is intentional confusion as much as it is just plain lying. Ever since 1968, straw purchases have been many things, but “legal” is not one of them.
You want to cut down on straw purchases? There is a law that makes it a felony to purchase a gun for someone not entitled to own one. Use it, as well as the law that makes it a crime for a convicted felon to possess a gun. Easy, open and shut convictions like this put criminals in jail and deter crime.
^ There is a law that makes it a felony
True. The whole gun control scam is 100% based on manipulating the ignorant and stupid to keep them angry so that more and more laws – often redundant to previous laws – can be enacted.
But never enforced.
From the Strib article. The person who wrote this mangled, confusing piece of crap has no business describing him or her self as a “journalist,” and that goes double for whatever intern edited it.
Legally bought firearms are showing up at crime scenes in Minnesota — and nationally — faster than ever, in part a reflection of a more concerted effort by law enforcement to trace guns used in crimes back to those who, in some cases, helped deliver them to the shooters.
There has rarely been a less clearly written sentence in the history of the English language. Try to diagram that sentence, I dare you.
^ Those “legally bought firearms” just hanging around on corners looking for crime scenes to show up at. Firearms, especially the legally bought ones, have never been as dangerous as they are now.
Oh, no, jdm, sometimes the laws are enforced, specifically when it serves the purposes of the powers that be. And when it doesn’t, the laws are not enforced, because that would tick off the voting blocks that keep the powers that be in power.
Enforce it, or don’t, but don’t enforce it selectively. Selectively enforced laws are used politically, and that leads to things like civil war. People say “The rules apply to us but not them, screw the rules.” I really don’t think the left understands how bad this is.
One of the outcomes (intentional I’m sure) of your “don’t hijack the thread” edict is that you get to limit the discussion to only that which you want. We like to call that “echo chamber” conversations (which is your intent as I say) but here you go since you brought it up..(kinda’).
Wayne LaPierre once said, “Only a gay guy without a gun can take a gun away from a right-wing loonie toon with a gun (and end a mass shooting).” Oh, wait, he never said that.
The shooting in Colorado reminds us all that your love of guns solves nothing. Thank goodness for the fact that, despite the omnipresent anti-gay rhetoric of the right-wing, people, gay, straight or otherwise, will confront people with gunz and defeat them, without gunz.
Gun companies L O V E straw purchases, and as a tool of the gun lobby (indirect) I’m soooo glad you make excuses, but they aren’t the panacea you claim (and yes, you do). Guyz without gunz stop guyz with gunz very much more often than you want to admit and guyz with guyz more often shoot themselves than other guyz with gunz, gay or not, do so. But hey, keep of the compartmentalized sophistry, it’s what you “free speech” notwithstanding, do best.
^ I’m at a complete loss to understand why Mitch thinks you’re smart.
The astonishing thing is not that Emery has subcontracted his drivel writing to the p-boy, nor that the p-boy managed a new personal best for number of unsubstantiated claims in a single paragraph.
The astonishing thing is that p-boy not only reads this blog but is compelled to comment on it. I certainly never read his and would not be allowed to comment even if I did.
It’s that sort of bizarre behavior that makes me wonder whether emery, the most recent mass shooter, and the p-boy, are all suffering from some sort of mental illness left untreated far too long. When will the nation address this shocking lack of compassion?
Paddyboy, yes, gun companies love straw purchases, which is why the NRA, with the full consent and encouragement of gun manufacturers, sponsored Project Exile, whereby straw purchases and illegal possession were punished harshly.
Reality is that manufacturers know very well that illegal use of guns undermines the case to preserve the 2nd Amendment, and in the same vein, gun control advocates know that punishing people for straw purchases and illegal possession undermines the case against it. Get up to speed, Paddyboy.
It’s that sort of bizarre behavior that makes me wonder whether emery, the most recent mass shooter, and the p-boy, are all the same person?
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bike;
We all know about the political motivations of liberal prosecutions of gun crimes. I can’t believe Schultz didn’t hammer on Ellison’s son violating state gun laws, with a scary black rifle, but wasn’t prosecuted. Had I been running against him, I would have investigated where the young AntiFa thug obtained the rifle and whether or not that gun was purchased legally. Then, not as critical, but then there’s the fire extinguisher. Where did that come from? Those can be and have been used as weapons. How many “fires” did young thug Ellison put out with it?