Ismaaiyl Brinsley
Al Jazeera
While authorities search for details in the shooting deaths of two Brooklyn police officers at the hands of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, just hours after he shot his ex-girlfriend in the stomach, they do know that Brinsley did not initially purchase the murder weapon.
Police say Brinsley used a semiautomatic Taurus handgun, bought in 1996 at a pawn shop in Atlanta by someone else, to kill the two officers before turning the gun on himself.
Authorities don’t yet know how the gun got into Brinsley’s hands. But federal law prohibits gun sales to convicted felons. Brinsley would have been barred from legally purchasing a firearm since he had already served two years in prison for firing a stolen gun in Georgia and had been arrested more than a dozen times, though mostly for petty crimes, according to The New York Times.
But that Brinsley did not directly buy the murder weapon from a shop is not surprising, say criminologists.
Through something known as the “private sale loophole,” he could have purchased the firearm in the private market at a gun show or out of someone’s trunk. Private dealers don’t have to conduct background checks on prospective buyers the way licensed firearms dealers are required to do by federal law. Additionally, guns get stolen, are passed from person to person or bought by so-called “straw purchasers,” those who buy on behalf of felons.
I think another good question is will this scumbags actions inspire others who may be upset to murder in the name of Mike Brown and Mr Garner like this turd. I believe the answer to be yes as we have seen the willingness of some to be violent towards community's and police around the country as well as eagerness to trespass on private property it was only a matter of time before one of these POS escalated the level of violence to the point of murder.
ReplyDelete"Private dealers don’t have to conduct background checks on prospective buyers the way licensed firearms dealers are required to do by federal law." more lies...if you are dealing firearms without a license you are a criminal. There is a difference between dealing in firearms and offering a firearm for private sale whether or not the Anti gunners want to accept it.
MBIAC.....
How do you differentiate? Is there a certain number of transactions beyond which a person can no longer claim to be a private seller?
DeleteI say we require background checks on every transfer. Problem solved.
Mike there is a lot more to it than that including which type of ffl you have and your location as well as other things.
DeleteWe know what you think about background checks Mike
MBIAC.....
I'll tell you how this guy was able to get a hold of a gun. It's called "parole".
ReplyDeleteOh, yeah, that's a brilliant solution. We already incarcerate more people than any other 1st world country and you want to increase that number. For you, any solution except the most obvious one, gun control, will do.
DeleteMike, you know me better than to say that. We need to stop locking up people for drug offenses and victimless crimes so that we have room for the violent ones. But you want to lock up more people in the name of "gun control". How does your logic work there?
Delete"But you want to lock up more people in the name of "gun control""
DeleteC'mon, man. You know better than that.
I so know you better than that. You say you don't want to lock people up for victimless crimes, but then support laws that do exactly that, and you call me a crybaby for opposing those laws. What and I supposed to get from that?
DeleteI think you twist crimes like having an illegally shaped grip into having a "victim" through your ideas of extended blame.
Are you saying all gun control laws should be limited to fines and confiscation of contraband items? That would still be reprehensible, but would at least fall short of the pure evil of ruining people's lives with incarceration sand criminal records.
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