• @[email protected]
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    15 months ago

    That’s weird considering I just saw a former cop sell a pistol in California that was definitely illegal to purchase. I asked them about it and apparently it’s fine to purchase it from someone who acquired it legally, as long as they were law enforcement or former law enforcement.

    Also, and I can’t believe this needs to be pointed out, we’re discussing illegally smuggling weapons and ammunition. If your mentality is “but it’s not legal” then I don’t even know why we’re having this conversation. It would not be difficult at all to find someone willing to purchase a gun for you and trade cash for it. They don’t search your car at border crossings, and we haven’t even gotten into ghost guns.

    • @chiliedogg
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      15 months ago

      Police are able to buy modern pistols in California, so there’s a thriving straw purchase market in California of police officers buying guns just to sell them at insane markups.

      • @[email protected]
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        15 months ago

        Seems like this would just succeed in putting money in the hands of the wrong people, no matter how you shake it.

        That, on top of poor people just won’t be able to defend themselves when things inevitably become worse.