Reporter wastes 2 days trying to show
how easy it is to buy a gun
Donsurber.com,
by
Don Surber
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
8/23/2019 12:48:15 PM
Hayley Peterson is a senior correspondent for Business Insider. Following the shooting in a Walmart in El Paso, she decided to show readers just how easy it is to buy a gun at Walmart.
It isn't. I believe this disappointed her. Not every Walmart carries firearms. Walmart does not advertise which of its stores do. And when she found one, she was told to come back on Thursday because that was the next time a federally licensed dealer was scheduled to work.
Then when she found a Walmart with firearms and a qualified seller, she discovered she could not pass the background check, which would take three days.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
earlybird 8/23/2019 12:50:59 PM (No. 160084)
Liberal young reporter from a Left-leaning publication gets an education. Sort of. Surber takes her the rest of the way. Then mentions in passing that she is a former Examiner White House reporter. Argh.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HotRod 8/23/2019 1:01:37 PM (No. 160101)
Background checks are to eliminate people who are not able to buy a gun legally, like a convicted felon or mentally incompetent person. Law-abiding citizens are not restricted by background checks. Only liberal politicians restrict people.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
KatieJo 8/23/2019 1:32:08 PM (No. 160127)
This was kind of funny in a way, but I do applaud the reporter for trying to prove something liberals are always claiming and being honest enough to admit she was wrong. If only we had more of the same.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
curious1 8/23/2019 1:37:53 PM (No. 160130)
#2, background checks, since they include the serial number of the weapon(s), are also an easy way for the fedgov to compile lists for confiscation purposes. Or did you never wonder why, if it's the person getting checked on, they need any information on the weapon? And background checks also allow your name to go on a little list. For those of you who claim that's not allowed by law, have you not been paying attention to how much law is ignored by the fedgov parasites? And then tell me again there are no registration lists, with a straight face.Don't forget, when they forced a ton of small FFLs out of business years ago, their records were collected by the ATF. Think they were destroyed? Think again.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
curious1 8/23/2019 1:42:07 PM (No. 160134)
Apologies for the second post; but background checks don't keep criminals from getting weapons, they just harass the rest of the citizens. Read that again, they don't prevent criminals from getting weapons, and due to it violating a criminal's 5th amendment right, they can't be prosecuted if they answer honestly on the form.
Think on that and tell me again how background checks, concealed carry licenses, and other forms of government licensing aren't an infringement of our right, don't give the government info it isn't authorized to have and prevents criminals from getting weapons. Go ahead,
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Clinger 8/23/2019 2:11:54 PM (No. 160167)
In her story she made sure to note that she walked right through the school supplies on her way to the guns as if that juxtaposition was supposed to invoke a collective gasp. That's not in the article but I heard it read on the radio this morning.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
mc squared 8/23/2019 2:20:57 PM (No. 160171)
Spend 5 minutes at Youtube as TV personality John Stossel and NY resident tries to get a gun permit in New York City. It's very enlightening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mi-LXipDo8
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 2:34:16 PM (No. 160184)
YES, ALL gun dealers take the background check very seriously, if they do not, they will NOT be a dealer much longer and could be in jail, unlike FBI and DoJ criminals who are immune to all laws.
Bitten by a few FACTS, eh, Hayley?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 2:38:25 PM (No. 160186)
#4. There is a federal law against compile any list of gun owners. Could it be broken? Well, obviously so, but there still is a law.
When an FFL goes out of business, their records are sent to AFT for retention. BUT ATF is barred from computerizing or compiling a list based on these records.
And there is a "hard requirement" that all info gathered in a NICS check is purged within 24 hrs. Can they cheat on this?
Well, of the "Russian collusion" investigation has proven anything it is that there are a LOT of criminals in fancy offices and in high positions in the federal government who do not obey the laws.
But, at least it is illegal to do. Whether that actually stops them, I can't know.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 8/23/2019 3:51:43 PM (No. 160261)
Cowardly reporter obviously doesn't have any contacts in da 'hood. How do so many get armed in Chicago's South Side? In a lefthanded kind of way, the reporter makes a case for why we should be armed! Irony,
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
hershey 8/23/2019 4:22:33 PM (No. 160282)
Just got done checking with my FFL guy, and there is NO Federal requirement to use a weapon serial number during a background check. The 4475 stays with the dealer unless confiscated by the Russian invaders in the beginning of Red Dawn...when the dealer goes out of business the 4475's go to the ATF who by law are not allowed to use them for anything...
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Omen55 8/23/2019 4:57:50 PM (No. 160311)
Now why doesn't she try the back alley where that guy with the car trunk hangs out.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy 8/23/2019 5:02:26 PM (No. 160317)
A correspondent who can’t pass a background check... now that’s rich!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 8/23/2019 5:18:03 PM (No. 160321)
The serial number and description of the firearm are not presented when the background check is performed. It's only a sales record for the FFL dealer. I held a FFL until 1994 it was for gun repairs and not much for new sales I turned in my records and they probably dead ended right there. I know I dislike paying (tax) for instruction and shooting indoctrination and being finger printed like a criminal for a CCP that's why I don't have one. My permit is a big yellow parchment paper called the Constitution.
The little bozo liberal twit got a lesson in a gun purchase just like when Nancy Pelosi was touting that you could purchase firearms on the internet. Well no you can't unless a federal firearms dealer is involved for the paper work. Stupid liberals.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MaMe2 8/23/2019 5:18:21 PM (No. 160322)
Do a report on exceeding the speed limit next time, you genius.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 8/23/2019 6:21:26 PM (No. 160381)
4473, #11, correct, although the ATF can use returned 4473s to do a "trace" on a gun found associated with
a crime. A trace goes to the gun maker, and their records shows what distributor got it, and the distributor's records show which dealer got it. The ATF will go to the dealer if they are still in business and ask for the info on who bought the gun. If the dealer is out of business, ATF searches the records in their basement.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
JL80863 8/24/2019 2:59:59 AM (No. 160604)
Instead of wasting all that time she should have just bought a gun on the internet (heh, heh, heh). Every liberal knows you can do it online. We could probably stop a lot of this nonsense if we spread the rumor that the feds collect data on the idiots that try to game the background check system.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 8/24/2019 7:52:40 AM (No. 160730)
She fixed her own stupid...Nice Job! Now you know background checks work!
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