Bloomberg claims that he has evidence that several weapons used in violent crimes in New York City could be traced back to gun dealers in the fair state of Virginia. Although Bloomberg has not provided this evidence to the public, he has based his entire campaign on this evidence. To further his cause, Bloomberg has hired private investigators to travel to Virginia to purchase firearms from various gun dealers.
In case you are unfamiliar with the process one must follow to purchase a firearm, here it is: first, you must have a government-issued form of identification (typically a driver's license) and a second form of identification (a hunting license, concealed weapon permit, utility bill, etc.) to confirm your home address. You then fill out an ATF Form 4473.
Note the questions the person that wishes to purchase the firearm must answer. The first question askes "Are you the actual buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form? WARNING: You are not the actual buyer if you are acquiring the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you are not the actual buyer, the dealer cannot transfer the firearm(s) to you."
This statement is the crux of Bloomberg's crusade. Someone that purchases a firearm for someone other than himself is perfroming a straw purchase. Bloomberg claims that the firearms used in NYC crimes were obtained in Virginia by this method.
So Bloomberg's private investigators have gone VA gun dealers, presented some sort of identification (either real or counterfeit - which would be a crime...) and filled out the form 4473. Assuming that the NCIS background check came back affirming that the transfer could proceed, the gun dealer has complied with the federal laws. This is the part that if we were a logical people, Bloomberg would be in jail right now - after the transfer has been completed, the PI informs Bloomberg that he successfully made a straw purchase and an army of lawyers descend upon the gun dealer. The gun dealer, who has complied with federal law, is being made out to be a criminal, while Bloomberg and his private investigators have blatantly broken the law by falsifying a legal document!!!
This tactic has already led to at least one VA gun dealer to submit to Bloomberg's ridiculous demands of having a monitor for every transfer performed by the dealer and at least one other dealer was forced out of business. There are some courageous dealers that intend to fight Bloomberg's illegal actions and I have already sent my donation to their legal defense fund. I urge you to do the same. http://www.vcdl.org/index.html#DefenseFund
I don't take kindly to anyone telling me that the way my state is doing things is hurting his state and that I need to change it. We already have the stupid one handgun a month law on the books in Virginia thanks to Doug Wilder acceding to New York City's demands over 17 years ago. We don't legislate in Virginia to solve problems in NYC, first. Second, Bloomberg needs to look internally at his crime problem, not externally. Perhaps the draconian anti-gun laws in NYC are to blame for the runaway violent crime in NYC.
I have a solution that should work for Virginians and New Yorkers: we Virginians don't go to NYC and New Yorkers stay out of our state. We didn't lose anything up there anyway. And I hate listening to the condescending bastards whine about how backward we are down here in the South anyway. Fine. We're backward. But our violent crime rate isn't a problem like yours is. I'll keep my firearms and my backwardness and my low crime rate. Sooner or later, you New Yorkers will figure out what the recipe for lowering violent crime is.
I could tell you but you wouldn't listen to us hayseeds anyway. Go home Bloomberg and take your Gestapo with you!
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