Reply #244: Ok

[hooptie]

Lets start with your presumption that it was a legal sale. Presumably he lied when filling out ATF Form 4473 which is required when purchasing a firearm from a licensed dealer. Question 12f asks "Have you ever been adjudicated mentally defective(which includes having been adjudicated incompetent to manage our own affairs) or have you ever been committed to a mental institution?" On December 13, 2005 Cho was found to be "...mentally ill and in need of hospitalization..." So, he lied on the form and apparently the Commonwealth of Virginia fouled something up in not notifying the FBI of his adjudication. I'm not familiar with the minutiae of Virginia law, but it could be the case that the Commonwealth was prevented from notifying the FBI by various "privacy" statues.

Laws to prevent this are already in place, but the States (or Commonwealth) and Federal governments screwed up.

No one needs to be a Constitutional scholar to understand that laws were broken, not by the licensed gun dealer but by various governments, and a pistol was illegally transferred to an ineligible person. If the various governments won't follow their own rules, how will making more rules help?

Gun fetishist? You may be projecting. I do not get "habitual erotic response" from any firearm. I do find shooting to be an enjoyable activity and and nice way to spend an afternoon with my 10 year old daughter who keeps bugging me to take her back to the gun range. Some of my firearms are examples of historically significant weapons: A Mauser made in 1917, a No.4 Enfield and a U.S. Rifle .30 Caliber M1 (commonly referred to as the Garand) when were used by England and the US in World War 2. Some I use to hunt with. Some are for target shooting. Some are just toys; expensive and possibly dangerous toys, but toys none the less. If you are ever in the Dallas area let me know, you can go shooting with us.