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In reply to the discussion: "Feds raid Eagle Pass (TX) gun shop" [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)28. this is the same doc that
had an undergrad walk around a gun show to count how many straw purchasers he thought he saw, and based an entire study based on it. The study says nothing about what the kid was supposed to look for, or what a straw purchaser was. Now that begs the question, if there is a "gun show loophole" why the straw purchasers?
I'm sure the ATF does, and they go to dealers without need of warrant. Wintemute does not have that authority.
The ATF has to have facts and evidence to take to a US attorney. Wintermute does not, he can write some half assed shit and hope it gets published. The phrase is advocacy scholarship. It is propaganda dressed up to look like scholarship.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1141365
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Another right wing gun shop fucks up. I guess we have to wait for investigation to conclude.
Hoyt
Apr 2012
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That which is asserted without evidence can likewise be dismissed without evidence.
X_Digger
Apr 2012
#9