Seems that the latest craze these days is for journalists to go to gun store and see how long it takes to buy an AR style rifle.
Except when they can't:
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=66402Mr. Steinberg and I have gone round and round over guns before. Especially when Illinois was passing the CCW law. He went on his usual "Blood in the streets !!! Wild West !!! Gunfights over parking spaces !!!" rant. While it's true that blood does run in the streets in Chicago, it's not the peaceful, and law-abiding doing the shooting. It's mostly gang-bangers, drug dealers and other prohibited persons using illegally acquired guns shooting each other (and often innocent bystanders). Sometimes it's the bad cops of the Chicago PD.
Yet, due to the pressure because CPD can't and won't police their own to get rid of the bad cops, the Chicago Police have gone "fetal". Meaning that they are not being pro-active and only responding to calls,k and even then doing the minimum required to solve the issue.
Anyway, I have once again e-mailed Mr. Steinberg expressing my sincere hope that he be prosecuted for lying on Form 4473, but offering him hope that rarely does the Obama administration prosecute those crimes. (44 out of 72,000 violations in 2010). I can post his reply when it arrives.