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ellisonz

(27,739 posts)
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 02:35 PM Mar 2013

Gun store owner cancels Mark Kelly's AR-15 purchase

6 hours ago

By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

An Arizona gun store owner says he will not sell Mark Kelly the AR-15 rifle that the vocal advocate for tighter gun control bought earlier this month.

The manager of the Tucson, Ariz., store where Kelly, husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, bought the firearm has said that he will not complete the March 5 transaction, according to a statement posted on Facebook.

“While I support and respect Mark Kelly’s 2nd Amendment rights to purchase, possess, and use firearms in a safe and responsible manner, his recent statements to the media made it clear that his intent in purchasing the Sig Sauer M400 5.56mm rifle from us was for reasons other then [sic] for his personal use,” Douglas MacKinlay, owner of Diamondback Police Supply, said in the post.

The store was required to hold the rifle purchased by Kelly for 20 days, MacKinlay told the Associated Press after Kelly purchased the firearm.

More: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/26/17471538-gun-store-owner-cancels-mark-kellys-ar-15-purchase?lite&ocid=msnhp&pos=8


- props to Mark Kelley for putting them on the spot.
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Gun store owner cancels Mark Kelly's AR-15 purchase (Original Post) ellisonz Mar 2013 OP
So he'll sell 50 AR -15s to a "collector" and not keep records. SunSeeker Mar 2013 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Duckhunter935 Mar 2013 #3
Not at all. Robb Mar 2013 #4
Duckhunter935 has a sad... billh58 May 2017 #5
The Breitbartians are crowing about this. Bolo Boffin Mar 2013 #2
So Obama didn't take away his god given right to purchase a gun??? rogue emissary May 2017 #6

SunSeeker

(53,666 posts)
1. So he'll sell 50 AR -15s to a "collector" and not keep records.
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 02:40 PM
Mar 2013

But he won't sell one to Mark Kelly? Wha...

Response to SunSeeker (Reply #1)

Robb

(39,665 posts)
4. Not at all.
Tue Mar 26, 2013, 06:20 PM
Mar 2013

What material violation of the law against straw purchases did the shopkeeper observe?

None. Unless you want us to believe he was worried the police Kelly was going to surrender the weapon to wouldn't pass a federal background check.

It was a stunt, just as Kelly's purchase was.

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