Holy Crap!
The Boston Globe has a piece on may issue concealed carry being onerous. No, really:
Gun owners are complaining that local police chiefs have too much leeway in considering applications for the state’s concealed weapons license, creating a frustrating patchwork of gun regulations that vary from town to town.
In a letter to the state attorney general’s office, gun owners say that police chiefs throw up roadblocks that are unnecessary, and possibly illegal, for gun owners to obtain a Class A license that allows the holder to carry a concealed handgun or own rifles with a large capacity for ammunition.
Wow! The otherwise anti-gun Globe printed that?
You’ll recall Steve Bailey, who allegedly made an illegal straw purchase and then wrote about it, writes for the globe. Complicit in that allegedly unlawful transaction was John Rosenthal of American Hunters and Shooters Association.
BTW, I wonder if ATF’s investigation into Mr. Bailey has concluded? I haven’t heard from the guy in while.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:36 am
John Rosenthal, founder of the nonprofit group Stop Handgun Violence, said he is happy with the way the Class A restrictions work.
“We make it at least a little bit harder for criminals and terrorists to get guns, and we have the lowest firearm fatality rate in the nation, second only to Hawaii. Gun laws work in this state.”
WOW, is he fucking serious? He just smiled and lied, what an asshole!
As for Bailey, I’m pretty sure his “Straw Buy” was a total lie, and was actully foiled by the very laws he was attempting side-step. See Steve didn’t want to be a fellon by breaking gun laws, so instead of actully doing a straw buy he had a friend legally buy a gun at a gun show and pass a background check, and then PRETENDED that the guy gave him the gun for his story.
As far as I know Bailey never took posession of the gun bought on that weekend, and it stayed with the rightfull owner untill the ATF seized it.
Bailey is an asshole for trying to spread ignorance in the issue to further his own personal agenda, but that would be no excuse to give the JBTs at the ATF the right to wrongfully harrass him if the invvestigation is still ongoing.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
The last I heard, Bailey moved to England and is working at a paper over there. He should be very happy in their “gun free society”.