On the day of our celebration of independence,
I wake up to read this in the news.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,56953,00.html

I do not usually shop for firearms at Wal-mart, but I don't believe that any law-abiding citizen should be denied their right to purchase an affordable rifle or shotgun, just because the guv can't do it's job in under 3 days.
This smells just like K-mart.

Hey guys, Have you noticed how "gun control advocates" have now "morphed" into "gun safety advocates"? Even my favorite news service, "fair and balanced" Fox News, has fell for the sham.... (see paragraphs 1 and 6). Wal-Mart is the nation's largest gun retailer??? That's a scary thought.... Gary T.

My question is this, if 10,000 criminals have bought these firearms from the stores because the check took too long, how many have they arrested since finding out they are criminals? If it is not 10,000 when does law enforcement plan on picking up these criminals? My suspision is that this is a bogus statistic. I wonder if the author of the story did any reasearch to see if the stat has any basis in fact? I bet he didn't.

They shouldn't have any problem finding most of these individuals since they have recently filled out that silly yellow paper.

I think that Walmart is just trying to cover it's own butt. It is amazing what a bunch of cowards there are around these days

Rich Jake

The stats probably are crap, especially if they're from AGS. But I have to go with Wal-Mart on this one. If you want to pressure someone, write to your elected officials and fix NCIS. Here in Virginia we usually get an answer in five minutes.

Hmm. Sounds a lot like the "400,000 criminals prevented from obtaining guns" the Reno-led Dept of Justice attributed to the Brady law. OK, where are the 400,000 felons sitting in federal pens?

A big, steaming pile of secondhand oats.

Government serves government first, remember.

Redial

I deal with polititions all the time and the typical configuration that the majority of them are in is that they have the other party by the balls, while the other party has them by the balls. If there ever was a bigger game of pocket pool going on...I missed it! mvm