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Mark Kelly explains
The local paper, very surprisingly, carried the story (I can't get the link to work for some reason) and gives his explanation: he bought the AR-15 to investigate how easy it was to buy.
C'mon, admit it. You bought it because it was a fun gun.
UPDATE: Let's not be too hard on the fellow. This may be a purchase he wanted to keep secret from his Mrs.! Married gunnies face that option from time to time.
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Being as the process is the same for all guns, it makes perfect sense that he would spend $2,000 just for the experience.
He didn't have to lay out money to find this out, and didn't need to buy an AR.
How stupid does he think those observing this charade are?
Also, I suspect he fired M16's "for familiarization" while in USAF. If it has been decades, I bet he's recalls it.
I suspect he didn't think the light would shine on him, and he would have to scramble.
If he bought it to give to the police like he said in an interview. Doesn't that mean he lied on the 4473 and committed a felony?
" Let's not be too hard on the fellow"
He wants to trample all over my rights while still exercising them himself? I find it hard to be harsh *enough*. He's the worst kind of hypocritical scum.
Update: Then he can Man the Hell Up and not weasel around......despicable.
Commander Mark Kelly was of course Navy not Air Force.
Aside from the strawman purchase, what did he prove? That a law-abiding, non mentally adjudicated citizen of the US can also buy the most popular rifle in the US?
OK, then....