Posted on 10/19/2011 4:57:55 AM PDT by rellimpank
A West Milwaukee gun shop that sold firearms used to wound Milwaukee police officers and has been a top seller of crime guns is surrendering its license.
But guns will likely continue to be sold from the location now occupied by Badger Guns on S. 43rd St., on the border with Milwaukee.
Details of that new gun-dealing operation are not clear, but one possibility is that the brother of the current owner will pull a fresh license and continue an operation with a new name - legal under laws written by Congress that can protect stores that have violations.
Badger Guns owner Adam Allan said Tuesday he is giving up his license after losing a yearlong battle with the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to renew it.
Allan said the agency will let him sell guns until the end of the year. Allan can then take any remaining guns and transfer them in his "personal collection" and sell them at gun shows without doing background checks - a loophole put in place by Congress and upheld by courts. In some instances, the agency tries to avoid such scenarios by requiring revoked gun dealers to sell remaining inventory to another licensed dealer.
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So the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, like the newspapers in the more southerly city of Chicago, has taken an anti-gun stance, insisting on presuming the very existence of handguns is a precursor to violence. ILLEGAL possession of handguns is a precursor to violence, legal possession that is widespread among the population of any locality has the effect of suppressing the illegal use of weaponry, as the perpetrator does not know when his illegal use will be countered by another who is merely appears to be a bystander.
And that can range from painful and disabling to downright deadly.
Crime guns, ey?
Where, exactly, does one FIND crime guns? I go to the gun store at least twice a month.....I've never seen them.
“take any remaining guns and transfer them in his “personal collection” and sell them at gun shows without doing background checks”
I have bought guns from a couple that lost their FFL and sell their personal collection on line. 20,000 (!) rifles in the collection. They are on the up and up because they are on line sellers and the guns, except for the antiques have to go to a FFL holder.
What Alinskyite nonsense. There are no more "crime guns" than there are "crime butter knives". The objects themselves have NO MORAL AGENCY, only people do.
For example, our government giving cartels (whom they know are murderers) rifles: it does matter if they give them rifles or barbecue pork on toast, they are aiding murderers.
Badger guns runs a REQUIRED FBI background check on every gun sold. The federal government therefore assumes the position of moral judge of the buyer. Therefore, NONE of those guns could possibly be "crime guns" since the buyer obviously passed the federal background check.
Unless of course, the fedgov is PURPOSELY aiding murderers to put gun stores out of business. But they wouldn't do that, would they? (wink)
I got excited there.
I got hungry.
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