Shocker; criminals didn’t have gun licenses
Reuters, in a link sent to us by Old Trooper, breathlessly reports their discovery that the Boston bombing brothers didn’t have licenses to won the guns they used during their escape attempt last week;
In the confrontation with police on the streets of a Boston suburb, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were armed with handguns, at least one rifle and several explosive devices, authorities say.
But neither brother appears to have been legally entitled to own or carry firearms where they lived, a fact that may add to the national debate over current gun laws. Last week, the U.S. Senate rejected a bill to expand background checks on gun purchases, legislation that opponents argued would do nothing to stop criminals from buying guns illegally.
Oh, my goodness, you mean the gun-crazed people in the “national discussion” were right, even though they were called liars by the president, the vice president and anyone else quoted by the media? Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us that they weren’t licensed to own explosives either.
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HUH? THEY HAD LAWS AGAINST THOSE GUYS HAVING GUNS, BUT THEY DID ANYWAY?
*GASP!* Could that mean that Gun Control Laws DON’T WORK??
/exit sarc mode
Well then, we just need to pass a few more laws. That piece of paper, when waved around with proper vigor, will scare off all the criminals, and make criminals out of the law-abiding citizens.
Promise!
The flip side of this is something I mentioned in another thread about the bombing. Thousands of people were defenseless when the two terrorists were roaming around Watertwon. Some citizens hit the road and others cowered in their homes. Even the fellow who found the live terrorist in the boat was unarmed. He checked the flapping tarp, saw blood, and was sacred to death until the police arrived. You see, he wasn’t able to contact the police immediately. It seems to me that this is the larger lesson to be gleaned from this tragedy. All of the law abiding (and lefty) folks who poo-poo guns are at the mercy of others. And that just ain’t right.
Laughed so hard I startled the cat!
I keep coming back to that part about ‘criminals don’t obey the law, which is why they are criminals’. How long will it be before that sinks in with the gun-control crowd?
I read about this in another news source. Of course the left in the comments section were screaching that they must have gotten the guns at a gun show “without a background check” or in another State. You can almost set your watch by these goof balls.
UNPOSSIBLE! (/libtard)
From the comment section: Classic!
“Word on the street is that they used pressure cookers in a manor inconsistent with suggested operating procedures as well. It’s almost as if they were criminals.”
“pressure cookers in a manor”, would that be the kitchen of the manor. Was it stately Wayne Manor? Are people now wanting to control what cooking appliances that you can use in your own domicile?
Hack–why not? Boston is in fact the same town that had a couple of genius City Council members who tried to introduce an ordinance to ban knives over a certain blade length a while back.
You’d think a knife with a 3″ blade would be more easily concealed than one with a 12″ blade, but what the hell do I know?
What, you mean a couple of terrorist assholes ignored multiple laws while committing mass murder and mayhem? I’m shocked, I say – shocked.
Here’s one comment from the article that I thought was particularly funny:
jabusse wrote:
I once had a safety officer who was inspecting a person who died because a two ton steel joist fell on him “did he have his safety glasses on?”
Same mentality
That Reuters article says ‘rifles that will hold only ten rounds”. I did NOT know that you could put multiple rounds into a rifle. I thought that was only shotguns or machine guns or something. Is that a misunderstanding on my part?
INCONCEIVABLE!!!!
@4: To answer your question; that would be never. They are too blinded by their ideology and happy, happy thoughts to be able to come to grips with the fact that because they aren’t able to, and don’t want to, protect themselves, they are at the mercy of thugs and government.
And… Their Dad tells us that they were good boys, that they meant nobody any harm !!!
I think that anyone buying a pressure cooker should have a background check and that a waiting period of 3 days before they are allowed to pick up the dangerous weapon !!!
Wasn’t Boston a Bomb Free Zone ???
The city council needs to pass an ordinance to display the Bomb Free Zone on every road coming into Boston !!!
That’ll fix ’em !!!!!
Nobody would dare risk that ordinance !!!
(with ordnance…)
Good Lord.
Next they’ll be all amazed that water is wet.
@12: yes, that is a misunderstanding on your part. I have rifles that hold 5 rounds internally and an M1 Garande will hold 8 in the only firearm with an actual “clip”. There are many .22s that will hold 14-18 rounds in a tube magazine and others, like the Ruger 10-22 will hold 10 rounds in a rotary magazine.
The real question is did they have background check & proper license for the explosives?
I’ll sit here watching the grass grow until the MSM gets around to investigating that.
This is my surprised face. Really.
@17 0ld Trooper, my thanks for the info!
@3 I checked Mass. Gun laws Friday and people with firearms are supposed to keep them locked and unloaded. Curious whether there is “mad bomber in the neighborhood exception”, and what happens when police come To search a home with an armed homeowner.
*SNORT!* *SNEEER!*. These guys breaking the law, THEY OUGHT TO BE ARRESTED AND TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS!!! Maybe we need laws regulating the sale and possession of explosives, a Federal Agency to oversee and regulate the same, and,…. and….. OH YES, we need to outlaw the home manufacturing of bombs NOW!!
/exit sarc mode
What gets me are the talking heads that are saying that because they had the guns illegally, we need more gun control and those that are blaming the NRA for the bombing. It’s like they now equate every act of violence, regardless of the means, with gun control and the NRA. Kind of like anyone who disagrees with Obama or the media is racist.
The twists in their logic are going to make their heads explode! Kind of like the fembot episode of Star Trek:
…and then there’s the story I heard on the radio just a few minutes ago where a college professor is calling for an internal investigation of the Boston Police Department for the use of excessive force in capturing brother #2. If I can find a related link, I’ll post it.
Only in Boston, Master Sergeant. I’m finding that San Fran has it’s fair share of loonies, but for consistent, constant, sustained batshit crazy, it’s really tough to beat Boston.
@23: Yeah, the media is throwing that narrative up, now, claiming that because these sweet, innocent boys got their hands on guns they weren’t legal to have, that it proves we need more gun laws and especially background checks, as though THAT would have stopped them from obtaining them. The stoopid part is they have no idea how the little darlings obtained them to begin with, but always get your meme out there first.
@24 – Excessive force? Well, the cops DID shoot up that boat, which would upset me, too.
OT–do these idiots screaming this shit realize just how hard it is to get a gun in Massivetwoshits as it is?
@25 – (Off topic…)
From some of your other posts, I noticed you know a little something about muskets and perhaps reloading? (I ask, because I don’t).
Anyway, there’s rumblings going on here that gun grabbers are calling for taggants in black powder again. What’s next?
I thought that discussion was brought up after the Olympic park (Atlanta) bombing?
I don’t know much, aside from muzzleloaders are a popular way to hunt around here. I don’t own one myself, although Thompson-Center Arms was located where I live until a couple of years ago.
And no, the whole “banning ownership of black powder” is one of those tinfoil hat rumors going around.
Someone in Congress tries that, and you’ll have a REAL revolution on your hands.
@27 – Precisely. Curious how probably 40 – 50+ shots were fired and brother #2 was likely hit a couple of times. I’m sure the boat needs some extensive patchwork by now (if not a total loss).
@30 – I wouldn’t go as far as folks are calling for the outright ban of black powder, but I think they’ll dredge up the discussion again. (and no… I don’t have a tinfoil hat).
What if….stay with me here. What if the reason why the gun angle isn’t being played up is because they were fast and furious weapons? Nobody knows where those hundreds of guns ended up.
If I remember correctly, those were all civilian versions of the AK47, and they HAVE kept that issue buried, haven’t they?