Posted on 01/10/2011 4:23:16 AM PST by tobyhill
Buying the firearm used in the Arizona massacre was easy as pie for accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner, whose rampage is sparking a new debate over gun control.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives traced the 9-mm. Glock, serial number PWL 699, to a Sportsman's Warehouse in Tucson and confirmed - by store video and receipts - that Loughner bought it on Nov. 30.
Loughner passed an instant background check despite a drug arrest and history of erratic behavior. And thanks to a new law signed by Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer, whose state has some of the loosest gun laws, Loughner was able to conceal it and carry it without a permit.
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13-3101. Definitions 7. “Prohibited possessor” means any person: (a) Who has been found to constitute a danger to himself or to others or to be persistently or acutely disabled or gravely disabled pursuant to court order under section 36-540, and whose right to possess a firearm has not been restored pursuant to section 13-925.
If a man isn’t sane enough to buy a gun then he’s not sane enough to be roaming the streets.
Usual MSM slam at the RTC law.
In AZ, they worked just fine. Anyway, if Loughner was set on killing Giffords, no law on the books would have stopped him.
Bloomberg is an asshat.
If the sheriff had done his job and reported the suspect to the courts, because he made previous threats, then the current law would have kept him from getting a gun legally.
Rather than blather on about guns, why doesn’t the Mayor send someone to my apartment door which is blocked with huge bags of garbage ripped open by homeless men looking for cans and bottles and rats looking for a decent meal.
Yeah, if that law hadn't passed, he wouldn't have been able to do the shooting. He could have never put that gun in his pocket because that would have been against the law.
Save us, Master Bloomberg, give us more laws!
Once again, political correctness, in my view raises it’s ugly head. The shooter was a known danger, at least to others, and was threatening to those who found themselves in his environment. His problems were brought to the attention of those in authority but they did nothing to protect society. This is a failure in our current system. When I was young, a person like this would have been institutionalized.
I’m awaiting for Bloomberg to tell us if his Bedbug Taskforce has eliminated the little bloodsuckers from Gotham.
Then he can lecture us about the evils of guns.
He bought the gun legally.
That in and of itself is not a crime in AZ the last time I checked.
That barb proves nothing about gun control.
Correct, the sheriff and the local prosecutor caused this, the knew the nuts mother and agreed to an alternative sentence and expungment for the drugs case. Because of that there was no conviction on his record.
Never mind, he did hide it. /sarc
Now here we have a guy that if the local law enforcement agency did their job would have denied this killer the right to purchase that Glock in the first place since he was known to have a history of mental issues.
Put the blame where it belongs,On the local Sheriff’s Dept,since they’re the ones who screwed up.
Mayor Bloomberge is forever stirring the anti-gun pot.You can be damn sure he has a paid security detail wherever he go’s.Unfortunately most of us working slobs can’t afford it so we need to provide our own security.
Yup. Criminals in the liberal gun control meccas carry guns and liberals pretend they don’t exist.
What hypocrisy!
The suspect had already made previous threats which under existing law should have prevented him from getting a gun if the sheriff had done his job.
The FBI cleared him when the ARMY would NOT.
HELLLLO.
The FBI has been quite disappointing under this Admin.
Yep. We need to nail the failures on the sorry SOB sheriff.
Correct, but you know the cops and their buddy system, they covered up for him became they worked with his mother, happens everywhere everyday.
He can rant all he wants so long as the next time it snows, he gets off his fat tail and picks up a snow shovel...
Exactly. There have been many accidents in the past year alone in which an illegal immigrant, driving without a license and while under the influence of alcohol was involved in an accident in which an innocent person died. Is that because our laws about driving are too lax? Is it because we don’t have laws about illegal immigration? No. It’s because the existing laws aren’t followed, are difficult to enforce, or just plain aren’t enforced. Don’t blame Brewer for this guy having a gun. That’s ridiculous.
Rabbi Bloomberg, thou shal not have salt, nor Twinkies. On snow days thou shall rest. Thou shall hand over to the other Rabbi’s at the government temple all thy gold. You should go unarmed, but it is permitted to have other pay for bodyguards. This way you will be closer to God.
He’s too busy getting new mosques built to house domestic Muslim terrorists.
He was not allowed to join because of drugs. If the Army knew that then it must have been on record.
Was it the school that said he had to bring a mental eval that he was not a danger to himself or others?
“Loughner passed an instant background check despite a drug arrest and history of erratic behavior.”
Who is going to determine what constitutes ‘erratic behavior’?
The tragic actions of this communist-loving psychotic
scumbag will bring about an end to private sales of ALL guns (even though he purchased it legally at a gun shop). Better complete your collections soon.
I gather the drug arrest had been expunged, but I haven't seen whether he was ever treated for mental illness. You can be crazy as a bedbug, but if there's no record of treatment, I don't see how you could show up on the relevant records!
No wonder the sheriff is so intent on making this political. What an idiot! If true, this is important and should be widely known. Exposing the evil is the first step in eliminating it.
I agree. According to news reports like this one. Loughner was deemed too dangerous to attend classes at Pima Community College, but so far as I have been able to determine the college reported his violent behavior to no one.
Politcal correctness kills again.
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In September, college officials sent campus police officers to Loughner’s home, where he lives with his parents, with a letter informing him he could not return without a mental health professional’s written assurance that his presence at college would “not present a danger to himself or others.” “”
Yes and the sheriff in a press conference said that there was reported previous threats by this individual.
It sounds like the data base of the instant background check failed- who was responsible for recording in that data base, this man’s history of threatening behaviors and mental illness symptoms??
The county sheriff’s office.
I wonder if he intervened on behalf of Loughner's parents to prevent the information from being put into databases that would have blocked him on a background check.
Bloomberg assumes that the murderer would have followed the firearms laws, but not the laws against murder.
I love these DemonRat assholes! New Orleans and Louisiana had been controlled by leftists for more than 100 years,...but the hurricaine was Bush’s fault; Leftist control NYC’s unions, but when they refuse to clear the snow this little sh*t tells them to go see a Broadway play. Simply amazing!
Micheal Bloomberg should be a convicted felon for “straw purchasing” in PA and WV.
It seems that if this guy had uttered one peep against an airline and he'd have been on a no-fly list
one threat against an abortion doctor and Homeland Security would have been all over him
one threat against gays or mosques and the DOJ would have been into anti hate crime investigation mode
or one rant against obama and the secret service would have got up close and personal
but he has been stalking Congresswoman Gifford at least passively since 2007 and acting out extreme antisocial behaviors with no legal intervention whatsoever
King Bloomberg the Idiot speculated the Time Square car bomber was a Tea Party follower when he turned out to be another Islamic terrorist. Mike, when you’ve proven yourself to be an idiot in these matters, STFU.
King Bloomberg the Idiot speculated the Time Square car bomber was a Tea Party follower when he turned out to be another Islamic terrorist. Mike, when you’ve proven yourself to be an idiot in these matters, STFU.
"The new law had nothing to do with Loughner's ability to conceal and carry without a permit. The streets of New York and Chicago are filled with thugs who conceal and carry without a permit."
Not to mention Washington DC, which has stronger gun laws and a higher firearms homicide rate than any state.
In spite of arrests and multiple interactions with law enforcement, and in spite of being obviously psychotic, he was never involuntarily committed to a mental hospital and medicated. Why?
NCIS criteria:
18, U.S.C. §922 (g) (3)
Is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance
18, U.S.C. §922 (g) (4)
Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution
It seems that he would have needed to be committed to a mental institution, but the drug arrests(s) should have triggered the NCIS.
My questions:
1. Why wasn't he committed to a mental hospital in spite of obvious psychosis and multiple interactions with law enforcement?
2. Why didn't the drug arrests trigger the NCIS?
But honestly, Vet (and I agree about the Mosque) if you could SEE my street which is in Manhattan not some god-forsaken outer borough. It’s disgusting and dangerous.
If a man isn’t sane enough to buy a gun then he’s not sane enough to be roaming the streets.”
This shooter has had a long history of strange outbursts. He was finally sent home last Oct from college & told he could not come back until he had a cleanance from a mental health evaluation.
This creeps “right to privacy’ & ‘confidentiality of his recorded bahavior” is the biggest reason why he got away with such actions for so long.
No one wants to admit their kin is nuts & needs to be removed from the streets & home town locations.
Further- NO ONE in LEo, such as the Pima Co Sheriff seems to think they MIGHT just have dropped the ball months ago with this kid.
This is Columbine on steroids.
There were plenty of signs of pending trouble. Laws ‘protecting’ the perp are harming the public.
So- why is this guy running loose?
IMO, this ‘sheriff’ has alot of answering to do to the people of Tucson.
Bloomberg is an asshat.”
Tell me, Mayor Bloomberg:
WHERE do all the gang members in NYC get their guns?
Do they buy them from a legal gun store & pass all the background checks?
For all the problems Arizona has with illegals, you have a bigger problem with same & with the gangs in NYC.
Sweep you own back steps, first, please. Quit grabbing the TV spotlight at every opportunity- especially when it doesn’t apply to you. You are starting to look like a media hungry Jewish version of NObama.
No, it was being a criminal in possession of pockets that enabled him to do that. For some reason I can't see him open carrying to the site where he was going to blast 20 people just because that was his only LEGAL carry option. Illustrating a related point:
Now, back to my Big Mac and donuts.
You’re not putting salt on that Big Mac are you? (If you are, good for you!)
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