Smug Chicago reporter tries to buy AR15 for hit story; Rejected; He beat his wife!!

[JoeMoma]

Apparently the gun shop could have legally sold the gun to the reporter if they wanted to. The article in the OP states that he wasn't turned down by the government. The reporter had not been convicted of domestic abuse, only charged. So the reporter was turned down due to the standards of the gun shop, not the law.