Reply #174: Gee, and so that's okay? [View All]

[MrBenchley]

It is appalling what gun nuts will excuse for their phallic toys.

By the way, I guess this means you're going to duck all those questions. For the record...

Bushmaster, which skirted the ban and continued to sell assault weapons to loonies and thugs is headed by Richard Dyke, who was the finance chairman of George W. Bush's campaign for the presidency in Maine in 1999. Dyke had to run and hide when another Bushmaster customer, white supremacist loony Buford Furrow, shot up a Jewish kindergarten and killed a postman in Los Angeles, and his ties to the campaign became public.

The Bushmaster became synoymous with the Beltway Snipers, who got their weapon from the Bullseye Gun Shop in Tacoma, Wash., who, amazingly also sold Furrow a gun (they have just the nicest customers). If you're wondering how the Beltway Snipers and Furrow got past background check, keep wondering. The Bullseye Gun Shop turned out to have no paperwork of the sort they were required to keep on that weapon or nearly 250 others...and lamely claimed the gun had been stolen after it was traced back to them.

Amazingly, thanks to the GOP and the gun lobby, the store is still open.