When Anti-Gun ‘Journalists’ Refuse To Understand Gun Rights

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Elaine Thompson

The mayor of San Jose wants to step up his anti-gun game. He’s working on an effort to record everyone who buys a gun anywhere in his city. This is an issue for a number of reasons I’ll get into in a bit.

However, it’s amusing when the anti-gun journalists start to horrifically miss the point regarding opposition to this measure.

“One of the challenges in cracking down on straw purchases is the ability for police and prosecutors to prove that the purchaser knew they were going to obtain that gun for the purposes of giving it to someone else,” Liccardo says. “One way to prove criminal intent is to be able to ask questions of the purchaser up front, and make sure those questions are audio and videotaped up front. That provides evidence for prosecutions and acts as a deterrent.”In theory, fighting straw purchases could be a cause that gun owners and gun control advocates share, at least in part. Straw purchases are the most common channel for gun trafficking, according the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; a 2000 report found that they were responsible for nearly half of all …Read the Rest

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