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They sue the gun owners.

Here’s a summary of what’s going on.

The City of New York hires a bunch of private investigators to go into gun stores in pairs to buy guns. While in the store one investigator does all the talking - asking questions about the gun, etc. - while the other one fills out the paperwork for the required background check. The gun shop owner then runs the background check and sells a weapon to the man who filled out the paperwork, not the man who was asking all the questions.

Somehow this is supposedly a violation of federal law because “city [of New York] contends that federal law prohibits licensed dealers from selling firearms to someone when the dealer has a reasonable belief that the weapon is being sold to someone other than the buyer.” Thus the lawsuit.

Which seems abysmally stupid to me.

According to the article New York City is targeting these gun shops because a high number of guns involved in committing crimes came from the shops. Are we really to believe that those crimes wouldn’t have happened if the clerks in these stores had refused to sell guns in a few instances where the person who actually purchased the gun didn’t do as much talking as the person who did?

Give me a break. If anything this illustrates how absurd gun control is in the first place. Criminals who commit gun crimes generally aren’t inclined to purchase their guns from gun stores that perform background checks. And if these criminals are getting friends with clean records to buy these guns how many of them are accompanying their friends and making it really obvious that the gun is for them and not their accomplice?

Crime is crime, whether it involves guns, fists or baseball bats. If you want to lower crime rates you must address the reasons why people are committing the crimes, not take away the implements they use to commit them. Especially when the criminals aren’t likely to follow any gun bans anyway, meaning that the only people who are disarmed by them are the people least likely to use their guns for crimes anyway.

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