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Old November 8, 2013, 10:51 AM   #60
Clark
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Joe Waldron, pro gun debater, tells me that few crime guns come from gunshows, but many crime guns come from straw man purchases. He adds that after the crime, the strawman buyer is almost never prosecuted. He says a typical situation is a convicted felon has his girl friend buy the gun. The prosecutor does not want to take some welfare mom to trial.

So I pondered this until I realized that it would be very hard to prosecute a strawman if there is no paper trail. The girl friend could simply say she later sold it to her boy friend, or he took it without asking, etc.

All this must leave prosecutors looking hard for a straw man case with a paper trail. And then on November 15, 2009 -- Alvarez sends Abramski a check for $400 with "Glock 19" in the memo line.
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