10-30-2003, 03:31 PM
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Junkie
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Originally posted by j8ear
im curious about that too..
What "loop hole" allows children to buy bullets? Is this in the United States? And the gun show loop hole? What is that exactly?
-bear
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This:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/19...uns/print.html
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You don't have to be Sarah Brady to think gun shows need to be better regulated. According to Bob Glass, owner of Paladin Arms in Longmont, Colo., as paraphrased in the Rocky Mountain News, "Colorado gun shows are rife with unscrupulous dealers who make it easy for felons, teen-agers and others prohibited from buying firearms to snap them up if they have the cash."
Anderson bought Klebold and Harris two old shotguns -- a Savage Arms Model 67 pump shotgun and a Model 31D double-barrel shotgun -- as well as a 9 mm Hi-Point carbine rifle.
This was perfectly legal. Any 18-year-old can buy shotguns and rifles, as long as she doesn't have a felony record. And it's perfectly legal for that 18-year-old to give those guns to others, including minors -- in what is known as a "straw purchase" -- as long as she purchased the gun from a private citizen and not a licensed gun dealer.
And since Anderson was buying from an unlicensed dealer, she didn't have to fill out any forms and no records were kept. These are all legal loopholes that the NRA has fought hard to maintain.
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This:
http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/...003robyn.shtml
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Authorities are still trying to make a case against Robyn Anderson, the Columbine High student who purchased three of the four weapons used by killers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
Until now, Anderson has been described by police as a witness in the case.
But prosecutors and investigators told the Denver Rocky Mountain News that a loophole in federal law has stopped them -- so far -- from charging her with making an illegal "straw purchase" of a firearm.
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