12-02-2024, 05:26 PM
macphanatic wrote:
Drug addict lies on federal firearms form to purchase a firearm he can't legally own. Leaves firearm in his vehicle unsecured. Firearm taken by his SIL and thrown away in a public trash can. Fortunately, it was found by someone with a conscience and turned into the authorities. Then Secret Service shows up at the gun store to get the shop's copy of the federal form (Secret Service has no authority in this - it's ATF's responsibility).
And the President pushed for more gun control laws.
Both sides of the aisle are out of control.
The Secret Service had nothing to do with this case. That's a right wing media lie started by the gun shop owner, who claimed agents visited his store. There is no corroborating evidence for that.
How many other cases like this can you site with this set of facts, resulting in federal charges being filed?
And...
"If a Delaware gun store had done its job, Hunter Biden never would have bought the gun that resulted in his felony conviction this month.
By law, handguns can be sold by shops only to state residents, who must provide a government-issued proof of residency, and Biden was not a legal resident of Delaware in 2018. Instead, he offered only a passport, with his name and birthdate.
The passport Hunter Biden provided a Delaware gun shop in 2018. It does not provide his address and is not sufficient to purchase a handgun.
StarQuest Shooters & Survival Supply not only sold him the .38 revolver anyway, but it later tried to cover its tracks by quietly adding a note to the form years later. The shop’s owner, Ron Palimere, admitted to federal agents that the store annotated the form around 2021 with a handwritten line “D.E. VEHICLE REGISTRATION.”
The issue almost became a point of contention in the trial when Biden’s defense team tried to raise it, but Judge Maryellen Noreika ruled that the shop wasn’t on trial and that the gun sales form would confuse jurors.
But gun control activists say that ruling showed a double standard in favor of convicting Biden while ignoring the violation by the gun shop.
“We don’t give drug dealers a pass to get the possessor,” said David Chipman, a former senior policy adviser at Giffords, whose nomination by President Joe Biden to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ended when it failed to gain enough Senate support in 2021. “It’s criminal investigation 101. How the government has bent over backward to explain away the more serious felony is shocking.”
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/inve...203329007/