Straw gun buyer suspected in Kan. Jewish Center shootings

[SecularMotion]

KANSAS CITY - Police are investigating how a felon charged with three shooting deaths at two Jewish community sites in Overland Park, Kan., was able to gain possession of both a shotgun and a handgun, reports the Kansas City Star.

Frazier Glenn Cross, 73, has been charged with one count of capital murder for the deaths of a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather outside the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, said Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe. Cross also faces one count of first-degree, premeditated murder for the death of a woman who was gunned down while visiting her mother at a nearby retirement complex.

None of the three people killed in the attacks was Jewish.

A law enforcement source familiar with the case told the Star that investigators believe Cross was able to purchase the guns with the help of a straw buyer, someone who could clear background checks and obtain the weapon for the suspect.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/straw-gun-buyer-suspected-in-kan-jewish-center-shootings/

[Jenoch]

1. What is YOUR opinion on straw purchases of guns?

[Straw Man]

2. I think straw purchasers should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

What do YOU think?

[TupperHappy]

3. Why are you afraid to add any comments or speak on this topic? (NT)

[hack89]

4. Fortunately straw purchases are illegal

so we go after the buyer.

[DonP]

5. This should be pretty easy to track and prosecute

Based on the 4473 and NICS check.

I'm sure you'll keep us all up to speed on the arraignment, trial and sentencing, right?

You're surely not just interested in a cheap, sensational headline when it's convenient, are you?

[Nuclear Unicorn]

6. If provable in court bury the bastard under the prison. nt

[Duckhunter935]

7. If found true

Prosecute to the full extent of EXISTING laws.

So are you for or against straw purchases? Care to comment on your cut and paste?