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Remember, the potential buyer was part of a group that came in. Who looked at and picked out the gun? If anyone other than the potential buyer did, then no, you don't sell the gun. My wife wanted to buy me a handgun for Christmas. I went with her to pick it out. The store made me do a background check, which I passed of course, and I had to pay for it. He was just following federal law. YOU CANNOT BUY A GUN FOR ANOTHER PERSON, PERIOD.
Agreed, except for race, sex etc - behavior is different to genetics.
If a doctor wants to chuck me out because they don't like my attitude, then I'm fine with. If they want to chuck me out because they don't like brown hair, then I will use violence to get what I want.
Remember, the potential buyer was part of a group that came in. Who looked at and picked out the gun? If anyone other than the potential buyer did, then no, you don't sell the gun. My wife wanted to buy me a handgun for Christmas. I went with her to pick it out. The store made me do a background check, which I passed of course, and I had to pay for it. He was just following federal law. YOU CANNOT BUY A GUN FOR ANOTHER PERSON, PERIOD.
Actually, buying a gun as a gift does not count as a straw purchase as you were not paying her for it. The store was in error.
"The Supreme Court decided in a 5-4 decision that federal law does not allow one person to purchase a gun for another person, even if both parties are legally able to own a firearm."
OP goes on ignore, was overdue for inability to have a reasonable intelligent conversation about pretty much anything.
1) Repeatedly ignores people pointing out that the SALE of a gun is not a 2A issue but in the way they are presenting it would be more of a discrimination case. (OP Please note the 2A does not cover discrimination any more than someone with a really low IQ would charge a botched throat surgery as a 1A violation.)
2) One of the flags for straw purchase is that multiple people come in as a group, they pick out guns and then one guy buys them.
Hey, maybe if you get your car repo'd you can start a thread about them violating the 4th amendment. lmao.
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Legally, I fully support the right for business owners to deny services to anyone for whatever reason.
THAT BEING SAID, the business owner is clearly racist as he's refusing to sell to a would-be customer with a clean background because he's stereotyping a black male.
Just part of life being black in America. When I cross the street downtown walking yo my job, even though I'm in slacks and wearing a gov't ID badge and carrying a laptop bag over my shoulder, I still hear people lock their car doors when I walk in front of their cars.
I still see women on the street walking towards me, see me, and then shift their purse to the opposite shoulder before they get to me.
I was called the n-word in South Carolina when I honked at a car that didn't see me when changing lanes and would've hit me if I hadn't honked.
I'm used to being followed or watched when in convenience stores and gas stations.
At 6'2, 225....I'm a "big black dude." There are little, everyday things I'm used to dealing with as a black male in America....both stereotypes and the way some people treat me. I wish other races could "be black for a day" so they could what it's like.
The 2nd Amendment in a nutshell. It only applies to certain people.
I wholeheartedly disagree.
While I think it is totally lame that some prejudiced gun shop owner wouldn't sell that man a gun, I am glad that he can go to another store and give his hard earned money to a fair businessman.
This way, racist businessman loses a sale, weakening his business, black man ends up giving his money to a fair business man, thus not supporting a racist, and fair busniessman makes a sale, strengthening his business.
I won't lose a wink of sleep over a racist SOB gunshop owner not making a sale because his racial views. That's the beauty of the free market. It can actually penalize racists as we see in this example.
OP goes on ignore, was overdue for inability to have a reasonable intelligent conversation about pretty much anything.
1) Repeatedly ignores people pointing out that the SALE of a gun is not a 2A issue but in the way they are presenting it would be more of a discrimination case. (OP Please note the 2A does not cover discrimination any more than someone with a really low IQ would charge a botched throat surgery as a 1A violation.)
2) One of the flags for straw purchase is that multiple people come in as a group, they pick out guns and then one guy buys them.
Hey, maybe if you get your car repo'd you can start a thread about them violating the 4th amendment. lmao.
The store owner jumped to a conclusion before the customer said a word. They didn't look around and act suspicious. And this customer has purchased from there before with no issue from other clerks. The owner, in the video, didn't even know he was a repeat customer, he immediately just said no. And you all are making up these straw purchase scenarios. He wanted to legally purchase a firearm. I didn't know there were all these "come in to the store by yourself" rules. Like I said, he's black, so people are coming up with all these criminal fantasies.
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