Technicality
U.S. Magistrate Judge Cheryl Pollak said Friday the court had found “that the city’s actions do not constitute a crime or fraud” because an actual straw sale never happened. In the purchases made by the city’s investigators, the buyers did not hand over the guns later.
That also, of course, means that no gun dealer involved broke the law.
January 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
It isn’t against the law to sell guns to people who pretend to be straw buyers?
January 28th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
What they did – technically – was “Conspiracy to commit fraud in a criminal act”. Technically, that’s a felony.
But, technically, if you have enough money and power, it becomes a ‘Technicality’.
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January 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I thought the law also covered an attempt to purchase.
January 28th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
A magistrate is low on the totem pole. This will be appealed, I’m guessing.