Reply #3: Yellow journalism indeed!

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Under "Merchants" it comments that the lady bought a 51 acre ranch. The implication is that she is rolling in money from the gun store. The likely reality is that the ranch is mortgaged, and is a working ranch. By working ranch, I meant that it is worked and expected to show a profit. I doubt very seriously that a gun store can finance an idle ranch.

Merchants protected by more laws? Same laws as a Mom & Pop hardware store. If you buy a knife there and stab someone with it, M&P don't go to jail. The Protection Of Lawful Commerce in Arms act does not protect a gun store if they violate a law, it only stops frivolous lawsuits that are filed to make the store incure legal costs.

How can a dealer be aware of what a legal buyers is going to do with the gun? They aren't mind readers. There are more gun stores in the US than there are McDonalds. The straw purchaser only needs to drop into a particular gun store occasionally, and always buy from a different clerk than last time. Don't engage in much converstation, just ask for the type of gun, fill out the forms, pay, and leave. But people like the writer want the store to magically know what the buyer intends.

"Some have found it more profitable to do nothing more than required," Well, excuse me, but that is ALL the law requires. If the speed limit is 60, and I am doing 60, then I am FULLY LEGAL. I don't need to drop down to 45 to make a display of extra legality. If he is doing what the law requires, then he is LEGAL.

Ammunition: Just because something is illegal in Mexico does not mean that we should make it heavily regulated here.