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YP_Yooper

(291 posts)
25. Just ran across this
Wed Jan 12, 2022, 07:03 AM
Jan 2022

Long and short drug dealers are having the users buy guns for them to pay off their drug debt, that are then used in crimes. Sure not new, but gained momentum.


Tammy Shifflett pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit an offense against the U.S. and lying on firearms purchase forms that she was the buyer and that she was not a drug addict. However, she was not the true buyer and she was addicted to crack, according to a recitation of the facts of her case by a federal prosecutor.

She admitted that she bought [dozens of] guns at the direction of a man identified only as D.W., to whom she owed an $11,000 drug debt, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Brendan McKenna. According to the criminal information, Shifflett bought guns illegally for a month, between Oct. 16 and Nov. 16, 2020.

D.W. and other unknown men gave her money to buy weapons and she stated on purchase forms that she was buying them for herself. She then delivered the guns to D.W. and his criminal associates.https://www.post-gazette.com/news/crime-courts/2022/01/12/Straw-buyer-from-Monroeville-pleads-guilty-to-buying-guns-illegally-for-co-conspirator-others/stories/202201120087

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Interesting YP_Yooper Jan 2022 #1
Thats an interesting stat. Were most of these "new" murder weapons stolen? oldsoftie Jan 2022 #5
Great point! YP_Yooper Jan 2022 #8
I read and posted about that ATF article and as I recall there was no dramatic AndyS Jan 2022 #11
There has to be a rise in 1 or the other. oldsoftie Jan 2022 #16
Well, here's the deal regarding "legal gun owners" . . . AndyS Jan 2022 #17
I'm referring to people who cannot legally own a gun BEFORE they use it. oldsoftie Jan 2022 #20
Excellent questions. Seems like we would need to look at details of the crimes... CaptainTruth Jan 2022 #7
"more people in intimate relationships killing their partner" YP_Yooper Jan 2022 #12
Not really. Every respected anti violence organization AndyS Jan 2022 #13
The Data Are Pointing to One Major Driver of America's Murder Spike .... Botany Jan 2022 #2
Imagine that... CaptainTruth Jan 2022 #4
But we must end all abortion. The Jungle 1 Jan 2022 #3
R.W. gun nut, quoted, posted on D.U. a couple of years ago. 3Hotdogs Jan 2022 #6
lovely. Just fucking lovely. Just another deplorable who doesn't mind violence or death. At all. Evolve Dammit Jan 2022 #15
it's their cowardice that trumps all Skittles Jan 2022 #21
I am truly ashamed to admit that was probably me. MicaelS Jan 2022 #26
No. it was posted as a quote by a D.U.er from another website. 3Hotdogs Jan 2022 #27
Yes, and there was a video that went with it. MicaelS Jan 2022 #28
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Fla Dem Jan 2022 #9
Thanks for posting Sherman A1 Jan 2022 #10
NSS niyad Jan 2022 #14
😂😂😂 Funny but not funny 🙁 live love laugh Jan 2022 #24
whaaaa? guns led to more deaths? I'm shocked, SHOCKED! I tells ya, simply shocked. Javaman Jan 2022 #18
Amazing how often we have validation that guns are the problem BeckyDem Jan 2022 #19
Yeah how did we get here? live love laugh Jan 2022 #23
Acquaintance told me guns weren't the reason for all the murders. live love laugh Jan 2022 #22
Just ran across this YP_Yooper Jan 2022 #25
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