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Originally Posted by Dozer523
on the news was a spot about a mega- church leader who has found it in his heart to forgive the guy who sold his son an unregistered gun over the Internet.
His son used it to commit suicide.
I don't care it was unregistered, I'm not in favor of registration. But a transfer conducted by a licensed dealer including a background check might have revealed the ministers son to be a bit unbalanced. And the transfer could have been delayed. Maybe that the son was buying a gun would have come as a red flag to someone. I don't know. just wondering, bring it. Sigh.
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While I am not exactly sure how you send a gun to someone "over the internet," no one in their right mind, will ship a gun to anyone other than a licensed FFL.
It is highly illegal, and I have heard that the package companies screen for that sort of contraband.
It would have been difficult to even offer a weapon for sale on the internet, since most websites like ebay and craigslist have banned firearms sales, even through licensed dealers.
If they met on the internet, the fact that he had a gun for sale was communicated, and the seller agreed to transfer it to him face to face, he was again breaking the law by not requiring proof of age before transferring the firearm.
Defacing a serial number is a serious Federal crime. Another violation.
Why could the son not have been equally successful by going to a dealer, and buying a weapon, with the background check, which he could have likely passed, before killing himself with it?
Or, as noted, used a rope, knife, car, tall building, bathtub, etc.?
I guess I must have missed something in 15-6 class, because I do not see the weapon as the proximate cause of the death. The person who pulled the trigger is.
TR