Reply #7: So we're not supposed to notice that the GOP encourages loonies to trot [View All]

[MrBenchley]

around with popguns in their pants?

Fuck that noise, as we say in Brooklyn.

"the smart money is on him not being legally qualified to have a gun at all"
Good thing he could walk into any gun show in Arizona and stroll out with undergoing a background check. Of course, that's assuming he didn't find a crooked gun dealer...which isn't that hard to do.

"In telephone interviews, undercover researchers asked gun dealers for advice on purchasing a handgun under one of three scenarios. Two of the scenarios suggested legal transactions. In the third scenario, the researcher asked about purchasing a handgun for someone else who "needs me to buy her/him a handgun" - a clear suggestion that the transaction was likely an illegal straw purchase. Key findings of the study included:
* 52.5% of the 120 gun dealers surveyed were willing to help a potential handgun buyer purchase the handgun for someone else, even though such transactions are illegal.
* 20% of gun dealers in a smaller follow-up survey were willing to sell a handgun to a researcher who said "My girl/boyfriend needs me to buy her/him a handgun because she/he isn't allowed to." One gun dealer responded "s long as you have no record, you can come down here and pick one up and put it in your name." - indicating a clear willingness to facilitate a blatantly illegal sale.
* Gun dealers in the Northeast (Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia) were least likely to facilitate illegal sales; dealers in the West (Denver, Seattle, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego) were more likely; dealers in the South (Memphis, Nashville, Jacksonville, Oklahoma City, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, Austin, Fort Worth) and Midwest (Cleveland, Indianapolis) were the most likely to facilitate illegal sales."

http://www.csgv.org/news/news_releases.cfm?pressReleaseID=17


http://www.bradycampaign.org/press/related_docs/041003/summary.php