As you may have heard, apparently they’re tired of getting shellacked on their own blogsite, so…the solution is turn off the comments! Funny!
Paul’s still trying to make the case that gun dealers are to blame with what evil people do with their products, just like it’s Ford or Chevy’s fault that Lindsey Lohan chases people down the highway in drunken coke-addled rages. He quotes from a New York Post article:
Dexter Bostic allegedly used a .45-caliber Llama on July 9 to fire two shots into Timoshenko’s head. The young cop died five days later.
That high-powered handgun came from R&B Guns in Hampton, Va., Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes said yesterday.
It was bought in August 1999 by a man who has since died. His family is cooperating with the feds.
Guns involved in more than 1,000 crimes have been traced to R&B Guns between 1996 and 2000, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
So let’s see…R&B guns is to blame for what Dexter Bostic did in 2007, because they presumably made a legitimate sale back in 1999? (If it was an illicit sale, sure, shame on them…but the article probably would have mentioned that if it was known to be an illicit sale.) Let’s face it, the clear implication of Paul’s comment is that R&B is culpable in more than 1000 crimes, nevermind that the ATF and the FBI will tell you that gun trace data should NOT be used to make crime pattern inferences.
Until the laws requiring clairvoyance to be a gun store owner are passed, I’m not sure what argument Paul has here.
I like how they called it a high power handgun. I am surprised that they didn’t call it a military handgun since the military used to use the .45.
Comment by LLR — July 27, 2007 @ 1:54 pm
I went to R&B back in 1999 during law school in Williamsburg to see for myself what the gun bu*ying process was (back before I bought my first gun). That place was scary. There was basically a line out the door and an assembly-line type counter operation. I am not surprised that they were shut down. It still creeps me out. They had really good prices, though. I guess they dealt in volume.
Comment by K-Romulus — July 27, 2007 @ 9:17 pm
From the Brady Site:
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Seems that they don’t have the time to keep up with all of the truth sayers over there so they just limit how many posts can be made at a time?
Comment by Norton — July 28, 2007 @ 6:46 am
I’ll go along with K-Rom in this one.
If a dealer is breaking the law by selling to unqualified individuals either willfully or through negligence then they should be charged appropriately. I don’t want a store that tolerates straw purchases and sloppy identification procedures to remain in business because it hurts all of us.
It is no different than liquor stores that turn a blind eye to selling to minors….you don’t put the whole alcohol industry and every bar and restaurant out of business because of one offender. You charge THAT store and revoke its license.
Comment by Norton — July 28, 2007 @ 6:50 am
>>The point I’m making, however, still stands–if somebody made a sale of a firearm in 1999, it’s kinda hard to argue that it’s THEIR fault somebody other than the bu*yer screwed up with the gun 8 years later.
Comment by Norton — July 28, 2007 @ 10:37 am
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