Wisconsin gun store to pay nearly $6 million

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evidently there was a video of the entire transaction .. hence reason for stupid is as stupid does post above.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2015/10/guns-america
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Mr Burton, then 18, shot both officers, Bryan Norberg and Graham Kunisch, in the face. Mr Kunisch suffered a lost eye and brain damage; his colleague was shot through the mouth. Both continue to endure physical and emotional trauma six years later.

The weapon came into Mr Burton’s possession a month prior to the incident. As he was too young to buy a gun himself, Mr Burton enlisted the help of Jacob Collins, his 21-year-old acquaintance. When the pair walked into Badger Guns, a shop that apparently makes a habit of selling guns to criminals, Mr Burton gestured toward a semi-automatic weapon he wanted to buy and Mr Collins proceeded to buy it for him with the help of a clerk, who instructed the pair in how to skew their entries in the required forms. It took the jury only nine hours to announce the verdict. As everything was caught on tape, there was little doubt that Badger Guns was knowingly making an illegal “straw purchase”.

 

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I'll say it again:

Why isn't the Obama administration held to blame for the straw purchases and deaths from the Fast and Furious debacle? These two events sound almost identical to me---straw purchases and the deaths of hundreds of Mexican citizens and Brian Terry.

https://oversight.house.gov/release/issa-grassley-report-on-fast-furious-finds-widespread-justice-department-management-failures/
ISSA, GRASSLEY REPORT ON FAST & FURIOUS FINDS WIDESPREAD JUSTICE DEPARTMENT MANAGEMENT FAILURES
PUBLISHED: OCT 29, 2012

..."Operation Fast and Furious contributed to the deaths of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and an unknown number of Mexican citizens. It also created an ongoing public safety hazard on both sides of the border. The failures happened because of conscious decisions to encourage gun dealers to sell to known traffickers(straw purchases) and avoid interdicting those weapons or even questioning suspects, all in the hope that would lead law enforcement to cartel connections and a larger case."...

PS---- IMHO, "Fast & Furious" was more about the Obama administration's trying to get more gun control legislation in the United States than it was about bringing down the Mexican drug cartels!