CBS News: ‘Look How Easy It Is to Buy an Assault Rifle’
16th June 2016
CBS thinks it amazing that an American citizen could — again, legally — purchase a semi-automatic rifle in the state of Virginia (not a machine gun, bazooka, or fully automatic Uzi) after . . . well, after doing everything you’re supposed to do in order to legally buy a semi-automatic rifle in the state of Virginia.
“Throughout most of America, you could go into a gun store and buy an AR-15, just like you’d go into a Starbucks and buy a cup of coffee,” UCLA law professor Adam Winkler told CBS.
Actually, no. By CBS’s own account, the producer 1) provided two forms of identification to prove state residency, 2) a passport to prove U.S. citizenship, 3) filled out the required state and federal forms reporting her name, date of birth, social-security number, and past criminal convictions or restraining orders (if any), and finally 4) passed a federal background check.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve never had to do any of that when buying a cuppa joe at Starbucks.
June 17th, 2016 at 14:18
You don’t actually expect them to report the truth do you?
June 17th, 2016 at 14:42
Since they don’t know the truth, and refuse to recognize it when they stumble across it, it’s useless to expect them to report it.