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This report from FoxNews helps to highlight why it is so very important for gun owners to be law abiding and for gun groups to be strict in espousing adherence to existing gun laws.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...xpose-illegal-online-gun-sales-backfires.html
In addition to protecting individuals from prosecution, conviction, and loss of rights, the aggregate effect of gun owners obeying laws even when we think they are unconstitutional, is to avoid handing our opponents easy victories. It is a little scary to think that some 6 dozen cases, perhaps the conduct of fewer than 1,000 gun owners among 100,000,000 might be the deciding factor. It is heartening that in this case, it went in our favor.
Fair use excerpts:
A Democrat-backed study meant to expose illicit online gun sales instead seemed to show the opposite -- with hardly any sellers taking the bait when undercover investigators tried to set up dozens of illegal firearm transactions.
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“Private sellers on Surface Web gun forums and in classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to our agents that self-identified as being prohibited from possessing a firearm,” the GAO reported, noting that in their “72 attempts ... 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction once we revealed that either the shipping address was across state lines or that we were prohibited by law from owning firearms.” In the other cases, the investigators' website was frozen or they encountered suspected scammers.
On the dark web, GAO agents successfully purchased two guns illegally, as the serial numbers on the weapons were “obliterated” and “shipped across state lines.” But in the attempt to purchase, the GAO agents “did not disclose any information indicating they were prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
Based on the findings of the study, the GAO said it is “not making recommendations in this report.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...xpose-illegal-online-gun-sales-backfires.html
In addition to protecting individuals from prosecution, conviction, and loss of rights, the aggregate effect of gun owners obeying laws even when we think they are unconstitutional, is to avoid handing our opponents easy victories. It is a little scary to think that some 6 dozen cases, perhaps the conduct of fewer than 1,000 gun owners among 100,000,000 might be the deciding factor. It is heartening that in this case, it went in our favor.
Fair use excerpts:
A Democrat-backed study meant to expose illicit online gun sales instead seemed to show the opposite -- with hardly any sellers taking the bait when undercover investigators tried to set up dozens of illegal firearm transactions.
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“Private sellers on Surface Web gun forums and in classified ads were unwilling to sell a firearm to our agents that self-identified as being prohibited from possessing a firearm,” the GAO reported, noting that in their “72 attempts ... 56 sellers refused to complete a transaction once we revealed that either the shipping address was across state lines or that we were prohibited by law from owning firearms.” In the other cases, the investigators' website was frozen or they encountered suspected scammers.
On the dark web, GAO agents successfully purchased two guns illegally, as the serial numbers on the weapons were “obliterated” and “shipped across state lines.” But in the attempt to purchase, the GAO agents “did not disclose any information indicating they were prohibited from possessing a firearm.”
Based on the findings of the study, the GAO said it is “not making recommendations in this report.”
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