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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 06:30 AM Sep 2015

Texas Murders Expose Fatal Link Between Gun Sales Loopholes and Domestic Violence

This past Sunday, a Texas woman, Valerie Jackson, was killed along with her husband and six children in their Houston home. The perpetrator was Jackson’s former domestic partner — and abuser — David Ray Conley, who purchased the gun used in the mass killing online. One of the children killed was Conley’s 13-year old son with Jackson, Nathaniel.

Valerie Jackson had been the victim of domestic violence at the hands of Conley, a convicted felon, many times during the duration of their relationship. In the early 2000’s, Jackson told police that Conley had cut her neck, punched her in the face and wrapped an electrical cord around their baby’s neck.

Despite his prior convictions qualifying him for the potential maximum sentence of twenty-five years in prison, the prosecutor in the case instead made a plea deal with the defense. Conley only served five years in prison before returning to the outside — and to his on-again, off-again harassment of Jackson.

Conley’s ex-wife recently told Fox News that Conley had abused her during their marriage, too, and that “If I hadn’t left he probably would have killed me.”

https://www.yahoo.com/health/texas-murders-expose-fatal-link-between-gun-sales-126685684092.html
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Texas Murders Expose Fatal Link Between Gun Sales Loopholes and Domestic Violence (Original Post) SecularMotion Sep 2015 OP
Private intrastate sale Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #1
"private dealers" this isn't journalism, this is a press release for Everytown. AtheistCrusader Sep 2015 #2
Private dealer Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #3
Private dealer? Stealth jackhammer? Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #4
For us old farts, "hush-a-boom" n/t Big_Mike Sep 2015 #5
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
1. Private intrastate sale
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 07:04 AM
Sep 2015

Perview of the state not the federal government. Open NICS up to private sales for no cost. Online sales that cross state lines require the weapon to be shipped to an FFL and federal background check passed to receive the weapon.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
2. "private dealers" this isn't journalism, this is a press release for Everytown.
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 07:13 AM
Sep 2015

There's no such thing as a private DEALER. that's bullshit made up to describe an individual privately selling a personal gun. Just like people do in the classified section of the local paper.

I'm in favor of UBC's but let's not lie and make bullshit propaganda up to support it. If you're a dealer, you aren't 'private'. Period.

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