North Texas Stores Suggest Breaking Gun Laws

[Robb]

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 NEWS) – It’s against the law to buy a gun for someone who can’t get it on their own, like a convicted felon or someone who’s mentally ill. But an undercover CBS 11 I-Team investigation reveals getting around that law is easier than you think....

...At each store, Investigative Reporter, Mireya Villarreal, or her photographer, Mike Lozano, would handle the gun to make sure the clerk knew exactly who’d be using it once we walked out.

After asking about background checks, we would tell the clerk we weren’t sure we’d pass one.

At six of the stores we walked into, the clerk behind the counter shut us down.

But at five of the locations, the clerk agreed to sell us the gun. That includes a Cash America Pawn Shop in North Dallas where the first clerk tells us no sale....

Read More: http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2013/05/14/i-team-north-texas-stores-suggest-breaking-gun-laws/

[The Magistrate]

1. Scratch A Gun Fetishist, Sir, Find A Criminal...

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy life as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

[Duckhunter935]

2. How about

we fund and enforce already existing laws

[aikoaiko]

3. I wish more FFLs and their clerks made conservative decisions about selling.

At 6 out of 5 did make conservative decisions. ffl and there clerks should be conservative.

Vague references to maybe not being eligible and buying it for the other person (perhaps as a gift which is legal) makes some of these situations ambiguous and, unfortunately, sellers make a financial decision. News stings like this are hardly ever prosecuted because of the ambiguous language used.

Apparently one these stores was Cheaper than Dirt and I am experiencing some schadenfreude.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. This is no surprise

Just about anyone can get a gun if they really want to.