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So.....federal prosecutions for gun crimes are down over 30%......now I find out they aren't prosecuting the straw buyers that left wing, anti-gun nuts bitch about.....and who are the big source for illegal guns going to felons...who are already on lists that ban them from owning guns...
Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
Several years ago, the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois — the federal prosecutor responsible for Chicago — announced that, as a matter of policy, his office would not be pursuing prosecutions in most cases involving “straw buyers,” the clean faces who use their unblemished records to purchase firearms on behalf of convicted criminals and others prohibited from legally purchasing firearms.
These cases are lots of work and generally don’t ensnare big-time criminals, but rather the idiot nephews, girlfriends, and grandmothers of big-time criminals.
Putting those people in federal penitentiaries for ten years isn’t going to win anybody any friends.
But they are the people who render our current background-check laws ineffective against the criminals who have turned parts of Chicago into a free-fire zone.
Putting a few dozen of them away for a few dozen years might provide a strong disincentive for other would-be straw buyers, particularly those who (as is not uncommon) engage in straw buying as a commercial endeavor.
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It isn’t just the federal authorities. In most of our states, including those with the cities suffering the most from violent crime, the ratio of illegal guns seized to gun cases prosecuted demonstrates just how unseriously these crimes are treated almost everywhere, New York being the notable exception.
Read more at: Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
Read more at: Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
Several years ago, the U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois — the federal prosecutor responsible for Chicago — announced that, as a matter of policy, his office would not be pursuing prosecutions in most cases involving “straw buyers,” the clean faces who use their unblemished records to purchase firearms on behalf of convicted criminals and others prohibited from legally purchasing firearms.
These cases are lots of work and generally don’t ensnare big-time criminals, but rather the idiot nephews, girlfriends, and grandmothers of big-time criminals.
Putting those people in federal penitentiaries for ten years isn’t going to win anybody any friends.
But they are the people who render our current background-check laws ineffective against the criminals who have turned parts of Chicago into a free-fire zone.
Putting a few dozen of them away for a few dozen years might provide a strong disincentive for other would-be straw buyers, particularly those who (as is not uncommon) engage in straw buying as a commercial endeavor.
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It isn’t just the federal authorities. In most of our states, including those with the cities suffering the most from violent crime, the ratio of illegal guns seized to gun cases prosecuted demonstrates just how unseriously these crimes are treated almost everywhere, New York being the notable exception.
Read more at: Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review
Read more at: Conservative for Gun Control, by Kevin D. Williamson, National Review