Gotta love how stupid our enemies are:
Guns are hard to trace. There is no easy way for federal officials to trace a gun used in a crime. Shops are required to keep personal records, and can be asked to hand these over for criminal investigations, but federal officials can’t keep those records anywhere. That means every time the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) seeks to establish the origins of a crime gun, it must go through a series of complicated and time-consuming steps. This likely has slowed down any reporting over where the Tsarnaev brothers purchased their weapons, and if they did so legally.
First up, Police have full access to the records, so no problem there. Also both Brothers were residents of Massachusetts, and didn’t have LTC permits, so your dumb question is answered right there. However they got their guns it was illegally. Chances are they got guns the same way the drug dealers in Boston and Cambridge get them. In the event that an unscrupulous FFL sold them guns, well charges will be filed. Non issue 101, you get an F!
Gunpowder is hard to trace. Police might not have had to resort to combing through hours or video to find the bombers if the NRA hadn’t stopped a law that would have created traceable gunpowder. The National Memo pointed out that the NRA played a huge role in stopping gunpowder “taggants,” traceable elements that exist in plastic explosives, poisons, and much of the food sold in the US.
We talked about this here, chances are with nothing more than a microscope and some small samples of common powders I could tell what powders were used…if any at all, we still don’t know this. Still let’s say taggants were used, and ignore all the issues with them being unsafe. It would just say what powder company made the powder…and that narrows it down how? Yeah, DUMB!!!
Stolen weapons are hard to trace. Gun dealers aren’t required to take any kind of inventory of their stores, meaning that lost or stolen guns slip off the radar. The President tried to rectify that problem in his latest budget, but Congress has not.
I’m not even a DEALER, and I’m required by law to have a bound book of all the guns I buy and sell because of my 03 FFL. Sorry, this is Bravo Sierra!
Police couldn’t detect a pattern of suspicious purchases. Another of the Tiahrt amendments stipulates that any background check data used to issue a gun to someone is destroyed within 24 hours, down significantly from the previous target of six months (and before that, 90 days). But, caving to pressure from the NRA, Congress has forced the FBI to stick to a 24-hour retention period– hardly enough time to detect a pattern of purchasing like the stockpiling of ammunition. Add to that the fact that there is no background check on gunpowder — though Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has introduced legislation that would require just that — and it becomes nearly impossible to trace the brothers’ actions.
Well given that the whole state of Massachusetts has mandatory registration, and said registry has NEVER been used in the prosecution of a criminal…see also New York, Maryland, California, the entire Nation of Canada. Sorry this is about as invalid argument anybody can make.
And one last pile of derp!
Reports from Massachusetts show that police think the Tsarnaevs illegally obtained their weapons. That state is one of a few that issues licenses on hand guns, and no licenses were issued in the brothers’ names. Indeed, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was too young to legally purchase a firearm in Massachusetts. But it’s very possible that the brothers crossed state lines and made a private purchase of a firearm. The world might never know.
Sorry the world DOES know, the bombers used HANDGUNS, so you need to be 21, also you cannot take possession of a handgun outside of your state of residence. They didn’t have the Massachusetts LTC to buy a handgun.
PERIOD, FULL STOP!!11!! DONE! However they got their guns it was illegal. How dumb do you need to be to NOT understand this? How evil do you need to be to NOT WANT TO UNDERSTAND THIS!
Hey, but its all the NRA’s fault….because race car!!! SQUIRREL!!!
I must say, I am grateful that our enemies happen to be some of the dumbest vertebrates on the planet!
