Incredible failure of states gun laws: dealer sells gun used to murder sheriff

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2timer

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*Edit* Ok, so it appears that the original version of the story has been changed.

Next time, I will quote the body of the article instead of just providing a link. Lesson learned.
 
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sunzt

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well to be fair, there is no guarantee the dealer would have actually followed a gun law.
 

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Incredible failure of states gun laws: dealer sells gun used to murder sheriff

If this is an "incredible failure," what does that make the hundreds or thousands of murders annually in Chicago, DC, and other places where guns are strictly regulated if not outright prohibited? I'm curious to see how you categorize that and which adjective you'd care to use.
 

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If that seller broke existing laws, how would new laws keep anyone else from doing the same? :confused:
 

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If this is an "incredible failure," what does that make the hundreds or thousands of murders annually in Chicago, DC, and other places where guns are strictly regulated if not outright prohibited? I'm curious to see how you categorize that and which adjective you'd care to use.

How would I characterize it? "Incredible failure."

Most guns used by criminals are obtained either through straw buyers or corrupt dealers.
 

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I'll play. What W. Va Democrat law would have prevented this?

Hint: the existence of a law or who wrote it has nothing to do with why it is or isn't followed.
 

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If that seller broke existing laws, how would new laws keep anyone else from doing the same? :confused:

The dealer didn't he ran the background check according to the link, he wasn't properly added to the database. It's a failure of whatever government agency was responsible for updating the system. Nothing about this screams for more knee jerk legislation.
 

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I'm looking at the story now, it appears the original version was edited.
 

sunzt

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The dealer didn't he ran the background check according to the link, he wasn't properly added to the database. It's a failure of whatever government agency was responsible for updating the system. Nothing about this screams for more knee jerk legislation.

I think the article mentions W.VA doesn't have a strict requirement to transfer mentally ill patients to a gun registry in a timely fashion. So a useful piece of legislation would be to require that database to be updated with mental illness patients within a certain time frame or fine the entity that fails to do it.
 
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