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Sarah's Shocking Disclosure
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"...Brady may have
violated the type of gun-control law she and her organization regularly
advocate..." |
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Bought a gun
for her son |
"You what???" |
Sarah Brady, Chair of the
gun-ban lobby formerly known as HCI, may be in
a little trouble with the law. And the reason why is quite surprising.
According to the March 22 issue of the Daily News (N.Y.), Brady may have
violated the type of gun-control law she and her organization regularly
advocate. In her soon-to-be released book, "A Good Fight," the gun-ban
advocate reveals that in 2000, she bought a hunting rifle at a Delaware
gun shop for her son, who was 18 at the time. And while Brady carefully
describes her experience, and the fact that the store clerk ran the
required background check on her, there is no mention of the store also
running a background check on her son - a requirement under Delaware state
law.
Amy Stillwell, a spokeswoman for the gun-ban lobby that now carries
Brady's name, explained to the Daily News that federal law does not
require a background check on the son for this type of gift purchase,
which is true. However, Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori
"...You can't purchase a gun for someone else. That
would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got a problem right there..." |
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-- Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori
Sitler |
Sitler indicated that if Brady did not disclose the rifle was a gift for
someone else, providing information for a background check on the
recipient, then the purchase may have violated Delaware law. Sitler was
quoted as saying, "You can't purchase a gun for someone else. That
would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got a problem right there."
This controversy highlights one interesting point. The fact is that
there are already so many laws on the books that regulate firearms that
even the nation's foremost advocate of passing more laws may not be able
to keep track of what is already on the books. NRA-ILA Executive
Director James Jay Baker commented, "We hope that it's innocuous and
there's been no laws violated."
Some, no doubt, will be shocked to learn of the firearm purchase by
someone like Sarah Brady. NRA-ILA's Baker observed, "It's obviously
interesting that Sarah would be purchasing firearms of any kind for
anybody, given her championing of restrictive guns laws for everyone."
Considering that she and her organization regularly claim that "the
safest thing [to do] is not to keep a gun in the home," one wonders
whether her son follows his mother's advice? Or maybe he simply follows
long-established firearm safety and storage practices that keep
responsible gun owners and their families perfectly safe when they keep
firearms in their homes.
And there are also the Brady warnings about
"children" and firearms. These gun-ban lobbyists regularly include
individuals as old as 19 (and sometimes older) in their statistics for
"children."
There is likely more to come of this story, which we will certainly
follow.
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