| joelrosenberg ( @ 2005-06-25 08:19:00 |
It looks like the last one is almost gone.
Thursday, Mark Koscielski lost his last-but-one appeal before the Minneapolis City Council, and he's been ordered to stop selling guns by July 1.
And so, the streets will now be safer?
Well, no. Understandably, with the city of Minneapolis having gone to great trouble, over many years, to put him out of business, he's more than a little irritated, and fed up. Word is that he's so irritated that he's going to take advantage of some subtlties in the law. Here's one: once he surrenders his Federal Firearms License on July 1, he'll no longer be required to -- or able to -- do a NICs check on purchases. He can't support himself by the sale of guns after that, of course, but there's no law I'm aware of that will prohibit him from liquidating what will have been his stock in trade, but which will, upon surrender of his FFL, become his collection.
I'm sure he'll keep a couple, for personal use, but he'll have hundreds and hundreds of guns to dispose of, and in Minnesota, private sales are legal. I think you can expect that Mark will go to more trouble than required by law to check out purchases -- he'll look at a drivers license to see if whoever wants to buy one is over 21 -- but he simply won't be able to do a background check, to see if the purchaser is a convicted felon.
And the streets will now be safer, right?
Nah.
Thursday, Mark Koscielski lost his last-but-one appeal before the Minneapolis City Council, and he's been ordered to stop selling guns by July 1.
And so, the streets will now be safer?
Well, no. Understandably, with the city of Minneapolis having gone to great trouble, over many years, to put him out of business, he's more than a little irritated, and fed up. Word is that he's so irritated that he's going to take advantage of some subtlties in the law. Here's one: once he surrenders his Federal Firearms License on July 1, he'll no longer be required to -- or able to -- do a NICs check on purchases. He can't support himself by the sale of guns after that, of course, but there's no law I'm aware of that will prohibit him from liquidating what will have been his stock in trade, but which will, upon surrender of his FFL, become his collection.
I'm sure he'll keep a couple, for personal use, but he'll have hundreds and hundreds of guns to dispose of, and in Minnesota, private sales are legal. I think you can expect that Mark will go to more trouble than required by law to check out purchases -- he'll look at a drivers license to see if whoever wants to buy one is over 21 -- but he simply won't be able to do a background check, to see if the purchaser is a convicted felon.
And the streets will now be safer, right?
Nah.