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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reposting a press release doesn’t address the question.

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It does. You just don't like the answer.[/quote]

Sorry, but it doesn’t. You failed (chose not to, rather) to answer my very simple question, which I will put to you again:

Are the stores supposed to refuse to sell guns to young black men because they [i]might[/i] be a straw buyer? Do you think that’s a wise decision?

That’s the question you chose not to answer. So please, if you would - answer it? [/quote]

There's no point in answering a question that has a false premise.[/quote]

So you won’t answer the question about [i]how[/i] these stores are supposed to prevent straw purchases by straw buyers, if there’s absolutely no concrete proof available to them that the purchaser is a straw buyer, and that purchaser passes all the background checks and waiting periods. Is that correct? You won’t answer that question - but you still say the ships should’ve stopped it.

Got it. [/quote]

"It doesn't take a lot of common sense to figure out that someone trying to repeatedly buy the same semi-automatic handgun over a short period of time is a straw purchaser,"[/quote]

I guess the attorney general will need to prove that the stores could prove that he was a straw purchaser and sold to him knowing he was one, not just suspected but actually new. What does the law say about limits and purchasing weapons? Is there a limit? I don’t know.

I’m surprised the straw purchaser received so little jail time.[/quote]

Because they don’t care about the straw purchasers. They want excuses to close gun shops. [/quote]

If you're trying to stop straw purchases at gun shops, it's a lot more effective, and cost-effective too, to crack down on the gun shops that sell to straw purchasers, than on the individual straw purchasers.[/quote]

How is the shop supposed to know who is a straw purchaser?[/quote]

Their industry group gives them signs to look for, the fact that this guy was throwing up red flags according to the firearm industry association is a huge part of the case.[/quote]

Because I don’t know anything about how this is regulated, what are the flags that these groups look for and where is the line between a hobbyist who buys a lot of guns for their collection versus a straw purchaser? For example, is 10 guns in a year too many for a hobbyist? Is that normal? Is that excessive for hobbies and how would that look different if it was a straw purchase?

My next question is controversial, but are these Red flags racial in anyway and are the shops trying to avoid discriminating? For example, a hobbyist is an old white guy, but a straw purchaser is a young black guy.

My last question for now is whether or not purchases are tracked across shops and do the shops have access to Who other shops sold to or is that up to the government to keep track? If the purchaser purchased five guns at each do the other shops know that there are 15 total weapons being purchased by this one person?[/quote]

DP. I am curious. Why are you asking these questions? Are you the OP? Or are you some random other poster who is interested in the operations of gun shops? Or are you just asking questions?[/quote]

I really am just curious. I know tone is hard to read online, but I guess it’s a combination of questions.[/quote]

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