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When do we stop burying our children and bury these bastards, instead?

Mon Jan 07, 2013 at 09:36 AM PST
by 8ackgr0und N015e

It is well-documented that about 60% of the guns retrieved at crime scenes originate with only 1% of licensed gun dealers. Adding insult to injury, most of these bastards are still in business. Why? Excellent question. The short answer: the NRA and GOA, along with their associated front groups, have worked hard to make it as difficult as possible for anyone to stop these bad actors.

Here's one example: Badger Guns and Ammo. [ https://plus.google.com/104727472949927988756/about ] These motherflockers didn't merely sell the Bushmaster to the Beltway Sniper, as Asher Heimermann pointed out here, on Daily Kos a few years ago in a largely unnoticed post:

Badger Guns is the the biggest seller of crime guns in the United States.

In 2006, between January and September, 1,880 crime guns recovered in Milwaukee were linked to Badger Guns. That was several years AFTER they were identified as the source of the Beltway Sniper's Bushmaster. If that was all they had done, one might have shrugged and said, "Hey, you can't blame the auto dealership for the actions of a drunk driver." However, the same year Badger sold the sniper his Bushmaster, they also reported over 600 guns "lost" from their store. That's almost 2 guns A DAY going unaccounted for. One store.

People in Milwaukee are not happy about this. That includes Police Chief Flynn. 6 of his police officers have been shot by guns bought from Badger Guns and Ammo [ http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/111901244.html ] and three quarters of straw purchases in the area were traced back to them. [ http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-671088.html ]

The result? Badger changed its name to Brew City Shooters Supply and the former owner, after losing his FFL, turned the business over to his brother. So if you are ever in Milwaukee and looking for a place to buy a gun so you can shoot a cop... now you know where to go. At the moment, you can only get ammo. But they are working to change that, dontchyaknow?

But wait, there's more....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/01/07/1176971/-When-do-we-stop-burying-our-children-and-bury-these-bastards-instead