Admiral Rockwell Tory
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The Right is enraged that a guy under a restraining order for stalking his adulterous wife is going to be denied the right to buy a 1911 45 from a gun seller who will soon be forced to do a background check.
He would not be allowed to do so with a background check BEFORE Obama's EO, which I still have not seen.
It is not illegal for small gun dealers to sell this man a gun without a background check. Obama's EO will presumably narrow that loophole.
Two Thumbs, on the other hand, has somehow morphed the entire scenario into one in which the intended victim would ALSO be denied the right to buy a gun, which is, of course, utter nonsense before or after the EO. It is the sort of overreach that gun nuts love to do, without regard for the fact that it is utterly untrue that anything being proposed is going to take away a law abiding legal purchaser's right to purchase a firearm..
How will it accomplish that? There is no way it could possibly come to anyone's attention if the background check is never run!
This entire grandstanding is based on 100% compliance with the law. Well, we already know criminals do not follow the law, so what is the point?
If I sell a gun to someone when I should have run a background check, and did not, I am guilty of a felony, and if that guy uses that gun to kill someone, you can be damned sure that it will be traced by to me, and I am in for some heavy duty shit.
How will they know you did not run a background check if they don't know that you sold it to them? DUH!