On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:53:24 -0400, "Jack Painter"
wrote:

You don't know anyone or any store that makes such illegal sales in your
city, and neither does the BATF

Hi Jack,

It is already been LONG documented:
" Bushmaster Firearms Inc. of Maine will pay $550,000, all of
which is covered by its insurance policy. And Bull's Eye Shooter
Supply, in Tacoma, will pay $2 million, the largest settlement of
its kind by a gun dealer, the Brady Center said."

I would pause to add that the "Brady" of the Brady Center has already
been dissed by the Republican Right Whiners. Clearly they would
prefer that Bull's Eye paid nothing and perhaps give Bushmaster a
rebate. And if Brady hadn't taken a bullet for Reagan, what kind of
spin would they have to offer? A marksmanship medal for Hinkley?

"Federal agents traced the weapon used in a number of the
shootings, a .223-caliber XM 14 Bushmaster rifle, back to Bull's
Eye."

The linkage was proven through target practice shells obtained at the
sniper's former address - HERE locally.

"The shop had problems for several years. Records show that Bull's
Eye could not account for the sales of 238 weapons"

"Its security was so abysmal that it appears that a 17-year-old,
Malvo, was able to stroll into the store and stroll out holding a
3-foot-long assault rifle," Lowy said. "And Bull's Eye didn't even
know the gun was missing until the police called several weeks
later to tell them it was found in the trunk of the snipers' car."

Copyright © 2004 The Seattle Times Company

Let's see, you cannot catch a kid walking out with a 3 foot assault
rifle every day of the week for a year (we will skip holidays and
weekends when they are more diligent). Yeah, right, that's how it
happened! Shoplifters every day for a year and no one notices it at
the till, or in the records, or in the stock room. Clearly a society
of profitable retards if we are to believe that.

If Safeway did business like that, they would fold in a week.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC