Here’s the story of a man named Brady
Via Counter, here’s a Q&A with Jim and Sarah Brady. Wow, they just lie through their teeth:
In the first place, lets make it clear we don’t want restrictions on law abiding citizens beyond making sure that all gun purchasers undergo a complete and comprehensive background check. Our purpose is to keep guns out of the wrong hands. Since the Brady Law passed 1.3 million illegal purchasers have been stopped by the background checks. We must now be sure ALL sales undergo background checks.
Wow. So, the Brady Bunch didn’t support the assault weapons ban or the DC gun ban?
March 31st, 2006 at 10:07 am
Of course, she didn’t mean it…
Fairfax, Va.: You said earlier that you only support gun bans if locality votes for them. Why did you support and continue to call for 1994 Assault Weapon Ban that was passed on Federal level?
James and Sarah Brady: I was speaking of bans on all firearms. There has to be a line drawn between legitimate firearms and weapons of war. We don’t sell rocket launchers to the civilian population – and assault weapons fall in that category. They have no legitimate purpose except in war.
March 31st, 2006 at 10:23 am
The Brady’s will always have loopholes to close, and always have to keep that line moving to cover more and more guns.
March 31st, 2006 at 11:12 am
So, have 1.3 million people who are disallowed from buying guns been prosecuted for trying to do so? Have they even made any attempt?
If so, why not? This would seem to be a better use of the ATF than harrassing people about paperwork.
April 2nd, 2006 at 9:20 am
Hypocritical gun control advocate may have violated gun laws
By TIMOTHY J. BURGER
New York Daily News
WASHINGTON – Gun-control advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000 – and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the New York Daily News has learned.
Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady Jr. a Remington .30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes, Del., gun shop.
“I can’t describe how I felt when I picked up that rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home,” she writes. “It seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat.”
Brady became a household name as a crusader for stricter gun-control laws after her husband, James, then the White House press secretary, was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt on then-President Ronald Reagan.
Brady writes in “A Good Fight” that the unnamed gun shop ran federal Brady Law and Delaware state background checks with great fanfare.
The book suggests that she did not have her son checked, as required by Delaware state law.
“(W)hen the owner called in the checks, it seemed to me he spoke unnecessarily loudly, repeating and spelling my name over and over on the phone,” Brady writes.
Amy Stillwell, a spokeswoman for The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said the federal Brady Law does not require background checks for intrafamily gun gifts.
Stillwell said she did not know whether her son was checked under the state law. The Delaware Department of Justice says the state does not have an exemption for family gifts.
“Scott is not a convicted felon, and he is not prohibited from owning a gun,” Stillwell said. “Scott Brady could walk into a store and buy a – he is not a prohibited purchaser.”
Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori Sitler said the purchase could be illegal under state law if Brady did not also say who she was buying the gun for and submit his “name, rank and serial number” for a full check.
“You can’t purchase a gun for someone else,” Sitler said yesterday. “That would be a ‘straw purchase.’ You’ve got a problem right there.”
Anti-gun control advocates were surprised to hear of Brady’s foray into their world.
“We hope that it’s innocuous and there’s been no laws violated,” said James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association. “It’s obviously interesting that Sarah would be purchasing firearms of any kind for anybody, given her championing of restrictive guns laws for everyone.” of a hunting rifle in delaware.