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发帖数: 29846 | 1 by Jammie
We’re still not sure what this guy was trying to prove with this stunt, as
his story has changed so many times it’s hard to keep track. If he was
trying to demonstrate how easy it was for a law-abiding citizen with no
criminal record to buy a weapon, then he did so. He also had to wait three
weeks to take possession and apparently the owner of the gun shop tired of
all the attention. Good for him. Now we’ll probably see the anti-gun left
complain about him having to wait so long to take possession so he could
show up with Piers Morgan and wave it around
Gabby Giffords’ husband has had his purchase of an assault rifle
cancelled after the gun shop where he bought it concluded that he only
wanted the weapon as a political stunt.
Mark Kelly, a leading advocate for gun control since his wife was
wounded in the Tucson shooting which left six dead two years ago, bought the
AR-15-style rifle three weeks ago to show how easy it is to acquire lethal
weapons.
Yesterday the owner of Diamondback Police Supply, in Tucson, announced
that he had returned Mr Kelly’s money because he was not buying the gun ‘
for his personal use’.
Doug MacKinlay said that he plans to raffle off the gun to raise funds
for law enforcement, and donate the value of the rifle to a firearms safety
organisation.
Mr Kelly was accused of hypocrisy for buying the same gun he is lobbying
to ban, but he insisted that he was only doing so to make a point and said
he would hand the weapon in to police.
Because the rifle was second hand, the former astronaut had to wait 20
days to take possession of it – and during that period Mr MacKinlay decided
to cancel the deal.
‘While I support and respect Mark Kelly’s 2nd Amendment rights to
purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his
recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing
the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then for his
personal use,’ the store owner said in a statement. |
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