TheBluesMan
Moderator Emeritus
Violators of gun purchase law seldom prosecuted by federal authorities
Here is the article: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/2/news/docs/033981.htm
Here is an excerpt:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Every day, a computer at the sprawling FBI crime information center in rural West Virginia kicks out the names of 100 or more convicted felons and others who, though barred by law from owning a gun, tried to buy one anyway by lying on their firearms applications.
In most instances, the federal government knows where to find these gun law violators, and has in its possession evidence that could lead to convictions. But this is one gun law the government rarely enforces.
Of the 23,000-plus cases referred by the FBI to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for potential prosecution since the beginning of the year, only 65 people have been arrested, according to the ATF.[/quote]
This reporter apparently took the NRA's last press release/fax alert and actually decided it was newsworthy. Wow! Imagine that.
We need to see more of this type of reporting if we will ever convince the borderline antis that we don't need more gun restrictions that won't be enforced.
By the same token, those that are worried about gun confiscation probably shouldn't worry too much. If the Feds don't round up these thousands of felons, what makes you think they'll lift a finger to round up you and me?
I know, I know. It's already starting in Kalifornia, but they're not really part of this planet. And besides, that's the Staties, not the Feds doing that. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Edited to fix URL, they changed it's location on me.
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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." - Ramsay Clark
"Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them." - Sarah Josepha Hale
[This message has been edited by TheBluesMan (edited September 09, 1999).]
Here is the article: http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/2/news/docs/033981.htm
Here is an excerpt:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Every day, a computer at the sprawling FBI crime information center in rural West Virginia kicks out the names of 100 or more convicted felons and others who, though barred by law from owning a gun, tried to buy one anyway by lying on their firearms applications.
In most instances, the federal government knows where to find these gun law violators, and has in its possession evidence that could lead to convictions. But this is one gun law the government rarely enforces.
Of the 23,000-plus cases referred by the FBI to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms for potential prosecution since the beginning of the year, only 65 people have been arrested, according to the ATF.[/quote]
This reporter apparently took the NRA's last press release/fax alert and actually decided it was newsworthy. Wow! Imagine that.
We need to see more of this type of reporting if we will ever convince the borderline antis that we don't need more gun restrictions that won't be enforced.
By the same token, those that are worried about gun confiscation probably shouldn't worry too much. If the Feds don't round up these thousands of felons, what makes you think they'll lift a finger to round up you and me?
I know, I know. It's already starting in Kalifornia, but they're not really part of this planet. And besides, that's the Staties, not the Feds doing that. (correct me if I'm wrong)
Edited to fix URL, they changed it's location on me.
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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you." - Ramsay Clark
"Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them." - Sarah Josepha Hale
[This message has been edited by TheBluesMan (edited September 09, 1999).]