Comments on: What’s missing from this story?

By: SayUncle » I’d like to give a shout out to my homies in Boston

SayUncle » I’d like to give a shout out to my homies in Boston — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:16:39 +0000

[...] see from my logs that the Boston Globe is checking us out. I wonder why that [...]

By: SayUncle » I’m sticking with the bullying and the lying

SayUncle » I’m sticking with the bullying and the lying — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:50:17 +0000

[...] Amendment Foundation is sticking to its guns about alleged journalist Steve Bailey (prior coverage here and here) breaking the law: Boston Globe columnist Steve Bailey is having a hissy fit about finding [...]

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:03:01 +0000

IANAL, but wouldn�t the transfer of a handgun from the resident of one state (Bailey) to a resident of another state (the prison guard) without going through a FFL and filling out a 4473 be a federal felony in and of itself?

I hadn’t thought about it but that’s probably correct, particularly in the case of a handgun.

By: SayUncle » Steve Bailey of the Boston Globe Responds

SayUncle » Steve Bailey of the Boston Globe Responds — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:40:38 +0000

[...] That’s the best you can do? I mean, you broke the law and then failed to mention the involvement of anti-gun group’s in your, uh,…. And somehow that’s the fault of that evil gun lobby? Twenty months ago, a lifetime in [...]

By: thirdpower

thirdpower — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:37:06 +0000

Bailey responds:

http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/07/20/the_atf__me/

By: nobody important

nobody important — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:55:38 +0000

Hey, they meant well.

By: HerrBGone

HerrBGone — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:06:00 +0000

If you or I had done this we’d be stocking up on soap-on-a-rope. Why aren’t they? Hopefully it’s just a matter of an intelligent and thorough DA taking his time to collect the evidence and build his case.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:54:41 +0000

This is interesting. I might say it is extremely interesting. Don’t these guys have anything better to do than make life tough for other people?

As a past class 1 FFL holder (1980-’88) I was always wary of strawman deals. I believe that an alert dealer can usually spot a straw man purchase because the buyer will be interested enough to go on about the merits of his choice, and state his proposed use, but if the client is taciturn you don’t know if he’s hiding something or if he’s just like that.

Clearly these cretins committed a federal crime, and suborned a citizen to do their dirty work. Do they want we should kiss them?

Sheesh!
Charlie

By: rmd

rmd — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:14:28 +0000

Some defense lawyer hotshot says that Bailey (and I presume, by extension, Rosenthal) probably didn�t violate federal law because they gave the gun to the straw purchaser afterward.

IANAL, but wouldn’t the transfer of a handgun from the resident of one state (Bailey) to a resident of another state (the prison guard) without going through a FFL and filling out a 4473 be a federal felony in and of itself?

By: Billy Hank

Billy Hank — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:52:41 +0000

The earliest example of this sort of journalistic ruse involved William T. Stead, the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette in London in the 1880s. He bought a 13 year old girl and had her shipped to the Continent to show how easy the white slave trade operated. He entrusted the transport of the young girl to a young reporter named George Bernard Shaw.

The resulting stories raised such a ruckus in Britain that Parliament was forced to raise the age of consent. First, though, they passed a law making it illegal to purchase young girls and ship them abroad, tried and convicted Stead under the statute and kept him locked up for more than a year.

GBS got an interesting idea for converting the behavior patterns of a young girl and the rest, as they say, is history.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:32:47 +0000

You don�t even know which newspaper you�re talking about.

I addressed that and i didn't even mention the name of the paper in the post. I typed the wrong name in a private email. But the globe, in fact, did not disclose that fact.

Why should anyone trust anything you say on this blog?

Err, because I corrected my error? And it was an error no one would have even known about (except Glenn) had I not disclosed it? But thanks for playing.

By: Dexter Westbrook

Dexter Westbrook — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:27:28 +0000

You don’t even know which newspaper you’re talking about. What kind of fool gets the Boston Globe and the Boston Herald mixed up? Why should anyone trust anything you say on this blog?

By: SayUncle » More on those Boston papers (they all look the same, ya know)

SayUncle » More on those Boston papers (they all look the same, ya know) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:18:19 +0000

[...] In an update to the bit on what The Boston Herald left out of the story comes this: [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:01:09 +0000

Live Free and Die

By: Jeffersonian

Jeffersonian — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:39:20 +0000

Some defense lawyer hotshot says that Bailey (and I presume, by extension, Rosenthal) probably didn’t violate federal law because they gave the gun to the straw purchaser afterward. I’ll admit that I’m not an expert on this law, but I doubt it matters a whole lot what the disposition of the firearm in question is so long as the shadow purchaser took possession at one point.

The transaction was a straw purchase, and Bailey should be call to task for it.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:25:47 +0000

How about staging an accident and showing how easy it is to commit insurance fraud? Or go out and buy some cocaine with money obtained from mugging an old lady.