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Very interesting. The gun shop sold a gun, to which they knew was a straw purchaser.
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A jury late Tuesday afternoon found for two wounded police officers in their nationally watched lawsuit against Badger Guns and awarded the officers $5 million.
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Badger Guns and Badger Outdoors were top sellers of crime guns recovered in Milwaukee for more than a decade. In 2005, Badger Outdoors was the top seller of crime guns in the nation with 537 such weapons recovered.
The ruling came in a negligence lawsuit that the officers filed against the owners and operators of Badger Guns. The suit alleged the shop allowed an illegal sale despite several warning signs that should have prompted a store clerk to stop the transaction and know the gun was being sold to a "straw buyer," or someone who was buying the gun for someone who couldn't legally do so.
I didn't see anywhere that a background check was not done, it was deemed a straw purchase.
The dude who did the straw purchase wasn't even smart enough to not check the "no" box to the question, 'Are you the actual buyer?" He checked the "no" box, yet the gun shop still sold him the gun.
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Collin's forms contained several corrections. When asked "Are you the actual buyer?" Collins checked the “no” box, but then crossed it out and checked "yes.”
Hopefully, this verdict will send a message to those sellers that choose not to do required background checks and screenings.
Where in the links provided before y post state they did not do a back ground check?
For that matter, what are the 4 out of 5 laws they violated?
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The jury found that the Badger Guns had broken four of the five laws proposed to them in selling the gun and that the store "negligently entrusted" the firearm used to shoot the officers.
If the gun shop sold a gun to someone who legally could not have it they should be held responsible just like a bar is when they don't check an ID and the underage kid they just sold to wraps his moms car around a tree on the way home.
Another angle on this a guy buys a car at a dealership then hands the keys to his drunk buddy who drives it head on into a school bus which bursts into flames. Does the car dealership get sued?
In the end Illegal should be illegal and if someone violates the law there should be repercussions for it.
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