WFB: Agents posing as criminals couldn’t get anyone to sell them guns on legitimate internet marketplaces.
Federal agents posing as criminals were unable to purchase any firearms from legitimate online marketplaces despite dozens of attempts over a two-year period.
Between July 2015 and November 2017 investigators from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), following up on a congressional request, tried to make the illegal private gun purchases through a number of online forums and market places. They made 72 attempts over that time but couldn’t complete a single sale using legitimate sites.
In 29 attempts the gun sellers refused the sale after being asked to illegally ship the gun to the buyer. Twenty-seven sellers refused after being told the potential buyer was a felon, domestic abuser, or otherwise prohibited from buying a firearm. Eleven sellers attempted to scam the investigators after finding out they were prohibited from buying firearms with two successfully obtaining money from investigators but never sending the promised firearm. Another five attempts to illegally purchase firearms were ended when the investigators’ accounts were shut down due to suspicious activity. read more
Ah, the old gun show loophole.
It actually does exist in a twisted way among private sales. Usually it’s because both parties know and trust each other to be on the upside of the laws. For example, I sold an inexpensive .22LR to a sheriff at a garage sale I organized. He came in, looked around, then asked if there was anything else he could buy. After some discussion about what he was looking for, I produced the rifle. I gave him a little trouble about seeing his information, running it through the system and recording the sale. But that 24hr wait period for that pea shooter? We kind of forgot about it. He knew I was the legal owner and I knew he was a legal buyer, both of us have numerous other guns, he even had one his hip. Neither of us needed to cool off.
Since Barry’s “Fast and Furious” illegal gun sales to the Mexican cartels illegal gun sales have hit an all time low. A few high level shit stains should have been tried for murder.
If dems want to buy a gun on the black market, all they need to do is go to a back alley in a democrat run city.
Keep searching searching hither and yon for those elusive lawbreakers
while the giant screaming parade float circus of criminals that inhabit the top tiers of Justice, FBI and IRS continue to accrue their ill-gotten pensions and other bennies.
Nice try, shitheads.
How utterly unsurprising that law abiding gun owners happen to abide by gun laws.
No reasonable person, no one with a conscience, no one who is a responsible gun owner would ever knowing sell a firearm to someone whom they suspect of having a bad motive.
Say, for example you wanted to sell a pistol.You ask the potential buyer why he wants it. He answers that he is having a dispute with his neighbor and just wants “scare” him. What about meeting a buyer and seeing that they look like a meth addict, complete with facial sores and missing teeth. Would you sell the gun? I do not know a single gun owner that would.
This is the sort of blatant squandering of time, salary and resources that needs to have the plug pulled.
I’m not surprised they struck out completely until they resorted to The Dark Web.
Or so they claim.
So they had prior knowledge of a “dark” web where criminal operators are found? And it hadn’t been shut down by law enforcement? Why not?
What could possibly be gained by leaving the “dark” web operating? Back channels? Job justification? Both?
That Dark Web was part of Fast and Furious that still lingers?
They should try buying a “nine” out by the dumpster behind the 7-11 at 3 AM.
Criminals do criminal things. Legitimate businessmen do “Legitimate Business.”
izlamo delenda est …
Why would Federal agents have to pose as criminals?
Aww. Comon. Ya mean the MSM has been telling lies the last 30 years? FAKE NEWS is not new? Been a thing for decades? You’re DEPLORABLE!