Call A Crook a Crook
December 18th, 2006 by Syd
12/18/2006
There’s someone out there telling folks to buy guns illegally, and I think it’s time we put a stop to it. He’s directing contract employees to walk into gun stores, lie on the paperwork about who’s buying the gun, and walk out after making a straw purchase.
Even worse, he’s bragging about what he’s doing. He’s holding press conferences to tell the world about what he’s done, but so far law enforcement doesn’t seem to be listening.
Well, I think it’s time we help out the ATF agents that enforce our nation’s gun laws. We need to call their Illegal Gun Hotline at 1-800-ATF-GUNS (that’s 1-800-283-4867) and alert them to this illegal firearms activity. Tell them that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is hiring private investigators to initiate straw purchases in several states, and you want them to enforce the law.
Oh, I know Bloomberg says he wants to rid New York’s streets of illegal guns. But he’s not asking for help from local law enforcement agents. He’s not asking for the help of the ATF. He’s not even using his own police department.
Bloomberg is using his own private army of investigators to lie on the paperwork in order to sue the small business gun dealers, alleging that they’re to blame for the lies they’ve been told. And once he sues, he offers the trapped gun dealers a devil’s bargain: Give Bloomberg all of your business documents, and the lawsuit goes away.
Have you ever wondered why Bloomberg wants to know who’s buying guns in Georgia, Virginia, Pennsylvania and elsewhere? If this were really about stopping a criminal’s ability to get a gun, we’d be talking criminal trials, not civil suits.
No, this is about Bloomberg gathering information that he can use to ban more guns that he doesn’t like. And from what I’ve seen, there’s not a gun out there that meets with Bloomberg’s approval.
If Bloomberg wants to ban all guns, we’ll fight him in Congress and in statehouses. But he shouldn’t be ordering people to break the law to get his way. Lying on the firearms purchase forms is a crime, and the ATF needs to investigate these straw purchases. It’s up to us to hold their feet to the fire.
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I agree with all of the artical, but just wanted to add one thing. Mayor Bloomberg is a Republican, why is it then that the RNC has not brow beated him over this as of yet. He should be forced to change parties if he contiues act like this. Plus, it is a reason that I will not vote for Juliani for his is the same as Bloomberg.
I am confused. If the NCIS background check clears the buyer based on the information supplied by the buyer, it’s not the dealers fault. What has the gun dealer done that he is being sued for? If the federal form 4473, completed by the buyer, is a lie then the buyer gets prosecuted not the dealer. This story does not sound complete.
I called the ATF 800 # to complain about Bloomingberg and what I got was EEOC employees that weren’t interested in taking calls about much of anything. I was referred to the NY ATF office and they didn’t answer the phone.
Carl,
That to me is precisely the issue. It was Bloomberg’s operatives who were breaking the law, by deceiving the dealer and performing straw purchases. Bloomberg and his goons are the ones who should be dragged into court, not the dealers who were hoodwinked. Our current Justice Department headed by Alberto Gonzales is as anti-gun as the Reno Justice Department under Clinton, and in some ways more so. They seem to want to ignore the problem, even when it is an insult to the ATF.
Pure poppycock..
Bloomberg is a dyed in the wool leftist and hasnt seen the insides of a rebub membership in his life.. why do you post such tripe as truth ?
He has been openly identified as a clinton democrat like the NY AG.
Order to break a law are illegal for an employee to follow and make the issuer an accomplice tot the crime.. why hasnt he been arrested already ?
Maybe because he is a Republican, as is the president of the Brady Campaign, Paul Helmke. It really bugs me that these RINO’s aren’t run out of the party, tarred and feathered and rendered whatever other indignities as might be fitting.
Just as the leftists of America, AKA Democratic party couldn’t see the handwriting on the wall when the party decided that New Hampshire would not have the first primary in the nation…so the Republicans on the street can’t see that our party has betrayed us. They produce the Newt Gingriches as great leaders and future presidential material even after he was sniffing his girlfriend’s skirts while his wife lay in a hospital with Cancer. Trent Lott? A joke. George Bush? Out of heart , out of steam, out of contention. In the past decade whenever the republican party has taken power they seem to line up in droves to see who can shoot themselves, and the party, in the foot the quickest. I’m amazed that some of the areas, like Georgia, haven’t issued warrants of arrest for Bloomberg and his band of criminals. But, you know what really surprises me? That some of the gun dealers are so stupid that they can know those clowns are out there and they will still sell to borderline cases. They will be “good ol’ boys” and sell to people whom they have to know are illegal or borderline. Some of you gun dealers wake the hell up !! Follow the law on sales. I have been buying guns all of my life. I have folloed the rules and so far at 60 years old I have never gotten into a mess on gun deals. I bought a pistol once from a gun dealer which was stolen. I called the ATF within an hour after I realized it was hot. They got the dealer and I am still here. Is there reason…is it just too hard for them…that dealers can’t screen before they step in doo-doo ?? I’ll gladly tell anyone that if a dealer wants to cut corners and sell questionable guns to questionable people they deserve to be arrested. Th Bible told us that we must give to the government that which is theirs. I hate overly restrictive gun laws…most are ridiculous…but as long as they’re there we need to obey them and work to change them legally. The more happy crap gun folks pull the farther our rights recede with the tide.
Last night on TV Bill O’Rielly was out raged that the rapper Snoop Dog was again out on bail walking the streets of New York after being arrested on drug charges and possession of a handgun. Supposedly, this is the third arrest for these charges. He is a convicted felon. Where is Mayor Bloomberg? This is in his city.
Bloomberg is about as RINO as one can get and still claim the title “Republican.” He ran for mayor as a Democrat and lost in the primary. Only after losing the Democrat primary did he switch parties to run and win as a Republican. He’s been a nominal Republican only a few months longer than he’s been mayor. He’s about as Republican as George Bush, Sr. was a “lifetime” NRA member. GHB, if you recall, joined the NRA and paid for his Life membership in July 1988 in the midst of his first campaign for President and then resigned that membership in 1993 after losing to Clinton. Bloomberg’s Republican credentials are just as phony.
This is precisely why a third party will displace one or both of the current pathetic lots within a decade or two. And it won’t be a moment too soon.
The dems have nothing but contempt for real civil liberties and the repubs will not stir themselves from pandering to the nut fringe religious right to defend those liberties.
All we have at present are a bunch of anal sphincters in suits with no principles and, apparently, no brains. That goes for both parties.