Posted by Tina
According to information obtained and posted at The Federalist, Katie Courics producer, “admitted on camera that her team illegally purchased guns across state lines,” in the process of making her documentary,”Under the Gun.”
Katie’s producer, Stephanie Soechtig:
We sent a producer out and he was from Colorado. He went to Arizona, and he was able to buy a Bushmaster and then three other pistols without a background check in a matter of four hours. And that’s perfectly legal. He wasn’t doing some sort of underground market.
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And he just met someone in the parking lot of Wendy’s and bought a Bushmaster. Legally. Like, this is legal.
But it wasn’t a legal purchase. Federalist explains:
Federal law is abundantly clear on what types of transactions require federal background checks. Gun owners tend to understand these laws incredibly well. Gun controllers like Soechtig do not. Under federal law, all gun purchases from an FFL (federal firearms licensee) must be accompanied by a federal background check. It doesn’t matter if the FFL sells a gun at a retail location, at a gun show, or out of the back of a car in a Wendy’s parking lot. All FFL transactions require a federal background check. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from: if you buy a gun from an FFL, the FFL must confirm that you have passed a federal background check.
Next we have interstate purchases, all of which must be conducted through an FFL in the buyer’s home state. It is illegal to purchase a gun across state lines unless the transaction is processed through an FFL in the buyer’s home state. And what did we just learn about all FFL purchases? That they require federal background checks. Ergo, all interstate purchases must be accompanied by federal background checks.
What does that mean? It means that a producer who resides in Colorado cannot legally buy a gun in Arizona unless that gun is shipped to an FFL in Colorado, whereby that FFL confirms that the Colorado resident can legally own that firearm.
Couric and her people didn’t do their homework. If they had, they never would have made this documentary. Of course that assumes they are honest people going about the business of public service. My vote goes for partisan gotcha TV instead. Will these people receive even a slap on the wrist for these crimes?
Do any of you gun experts have any thoughts?
Federalist is correct in their explanation of the legal process, and perhaps that is what Katie’s producer did when purchasing from FFL’s in Arizona, assuming he presented a valid Colorado DL or ID. The description of the whole process was then condensed to the word “buy” for the story. Same old, same old, the 5th column media lying by omission.
You have to respect Katie, she has — in one swell foop — gone from a light-weight, snotty, left-wing quasi-journalist and failed talk show host to a full blown progressive propagandist pimp that moves her
updown to Michael Moore’s league.Right next to Brian Williams, another journalist in name only.
Yup. It’s Pinocchio Williams now with Pinocchio Couric.
The producer keeps apologizing as well. They’re all Sorry.
Sorry they got CAUGHT!
I’m not a gun owner and know little about the laws. My reading of the article is that these people broke gun laws (believing the purchases were legal).
A. Should they be prosecuted?
B. Doesn’t this explain, in part, why the anti-gun crowd is such a pain in the butt? They don’t understand that what they want and demand is already law.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. The should be prosecuted and made an example of, but we all know that is not going to happen.
Ignorance is what the anti-gun crowd is all about. They feed on ignorance. They try to exploit ignorance,
Stephanie Soechtig—“And that’s perfectly legal.”
I believe this to be an outright lie. If she was truly that ignorant, she would be sitting on San Francisco sidewalk selling pencils. They certainly broke several laws and I think they did so deliberately. So–
A. “Should they be prosecuted?” Absolutely.
B. “Doesn’t this explain, in part, why the anti-gun crowd is such a pain in the butt?”
As far as the fact that they lie through their teeth, yes.
“They don’t understand that what they want and demand is already law.”
No. They understand perfectly. They don’t care. We are to be disarmed at any cost.
Gun control is not about the guns. It’s about control.
The anti gun crowd is a pain because they refuse to understand that legal gun owners are not the issue, but they cant look like their baffled, so they just fix blame on a convenient target even though it is misdirected. What’s next on their list of ridiculous condemnation, hammers, knives, axes or even gas stations, because gas stations fuel the cars that kill people as well.
California’s recent new gun laws are a joke, none of them even come close to preventing criminal gun users from obtaining guns or ammunition, let alone using them.
Fairy dust and unicorns laws are all they know how do.
Like I said, they lie.
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2016/6/6/how-katie-couric-cut-john-lott-from-her-anti-gun-documentary/