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Your argument is foolish. He already bought guns there before with no problem.
So why now does he magically have an issue? If that's the case. Either way he still believes this black guy with a clean record WILL commit a crime with the gun somehow.
Straw purchase if I'm not mistaken is when someone with a clean record buys guns for someone who can't legally buy them or doesn't want a paper trail. Gangs use this method often. It's how they get all those guns to shoot each other with.
The person who buys them will then claim the gun was stolen.
Straw Purchasing. Buying a gun for someone who is prohibited by law from possessing one or for someone who does not want his or her name associated with the transaction is a "straw purchase." An illegal firearm purchase (straw purchase) is a federal crime.
He thinks the black guy will illegally sell the gun to someone else.
full stop.
And the black dude said he purchased multiple guns from there. The only difference is the store owner wasn't there before. He purchased from other clerks. The black guy said "he didn't know I was a regular customer". That's how I know it's about race. He just saw a black guy walk in and refuse service, even when the black guy has purchased there before from other clerks and nothing indicating straw purchases.
The fact that the guy has one gun on layaway but comes in with the money to buy another gun (not the one on layaway) would make me believe that he is making a straw purchase.
The owner did the right thing.
RR
Yup, sometimes the devil is in the details.
Without that context, sure, someone just casually browsing the topic might think it could be racially motivated, white gun shop owner, black customer, yet that one detail shines new light on it.
Without that context, sure, someone just casually browsing the topic might think it could be racially motivated, white gun shop owner, black customer, yet that one detail shines new light on it.
Exactly! If he has the money to buy a gun. why is he not getting the gun that he already had on lay away?
The fact that the guy has one gun on layaway but comes in with the money to buy another gun (not the one on layaway) would make me believe that he is making a straw purchase.
The owner did the right thing.
RR
Indeed, that does send up a flare. If he had the money to pay for a gun and walk out with it why is he leaving another on layaway? Smells like a straw to me as well. And there is the tape that doesn't show the whole story. Screaming racism is the easy way for the guy to get back at the store owner for not selling him the gun. Since the guy is a regular patron the owner figured he had good reason to not allow the sale. Looks that way to me anyway.
Indeed, that does send up a flare. If he had the money to pay for a gun and walk out with it why is he leaving another on layaway? Smells like a straw to me as well. And there is the tape that doesn't show the whole story. Screaming racism is the easy way for the guy to get back at the store owner for not selling him the gun. Since the guy is a regular patron the owner figured he had good reason to not allow the sale. Looks that way to me anyway.
The guy that refused to sell him the gun didn't even know he was a regular. He refused because he saw a black guy walk in. The black guy clearly bought guns no problem from other clerks who weren't racist in the shop.
He probably had money for the cheaper gun that day. And the more expensive gun he would still make payments on. How is this hard to figure out?
Oh of course! Silly me. He only has money for a cheap gun not the expensive one. LMAO!!! People are too quick to use the race card these days.
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