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In reply to the discussion: U.S. PAYS DEARLY FOR GUN NUTS' RIGHTS TO THEIR TOYS [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)53. An argument from authority, by a "legal professional" that gets the law wrong?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=167005
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=167031
I predict an entertaining, yet abbreviated career here at DU
When a criminal wants a gun he or she doesn't steal it like cops and the National Rifle Assn.tell us. They obtain it through a legal straw purchase
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=167031
No such thing as a "legal straw purchase"
A "straw purchase" is defined as "the illegal purchase of a firearm by one person for another", as you might read on the ATF web site:
https://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-dont-lie-campaign.html
...along with reports of prosecutions for same:
https://www.atf.gov/news/pr/three-dover-men-indicted-conspiracy-involving-straw-purchase-handgun
A "straw purchase" is defined as "the illegal purchase of a firearm by one person for another", as you might read on the ATF web site:
https://www.atf.gov/publications/factsheets/factsheet-dont-lie-campaign.html
...along with reports of prosecutions for same:
https://www.atf.gov/news/pr/three-dover-men-indicted-conspiracy-involving-straw-purchase-handgun
I predict an entertaining, yet abbreviated career here at DU
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Lol he does seem a bit familiar but I haven't been around enough lately to give a good guess.
clffrdjk
May 2015
#11
Did you know that the magazine Mother Jones takes its name from a women that was the
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2015
#7
Anyone who uses Mother Jones as an objective source on this issue has questionable intelligence
Shamash
May 2015
#8
An argument from authority, by a "legal professional" that gets the law wrong?
friendly_iconoclast
May 2015
#53
If everyone you are talking to doesn't make sense to you maybe you are the problem.
clffrdjk
May 2015
#27
Several have shown that your contention about no restrictions is demonstrably false.
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2015
#33