>Sarah Brady, Chair of the gun-ban lobby formerly known as HCI, apparently
>broke no law when, as revealed in her recently released book, she bought a
>hunting rifle at a Delaware gun shop for her son, who was then 18. The
>Daily
>News (N. Y.), which ran a March 22 story saying Brady may have skirted
>Delaware law, has issued a retraction after the Delaware Department of
>Justice told the paper that the Department had misinterpreted the law in
>talking to its reporter.
>
>This flap highlights one interesting point, however. The fact is that there
>are already so many laws in America that regulate firearms, that even the
>nation`s foremost advocate of passing more laws and the people charged with
>enforcing those on the books may not be able to keep track of them.
>
>But this story remains at least moderately controversial, as there is some
>dispute over the accuracy of Brady`s published account of her purchase.
>According to an exclusive NRALIVE. com interview with the gun store owner
>who completed the transaction, Brady may have injected a bit of fiction
>into
>her autobiographical story about her efforts to ban firearms in America.
>
>While the store owner wishes to remain anonymous, he did tell NRALIVE. com
>that the claim in Sarah Brady`s book that her purchase was “approved
>immediately” and “[t]he system was working” is not true. According to the
>gun dealer, the day Brady came into his shop to purchase a high-powered
>rifle, the National Instant Check System (NICS) was down, causing a
>tremendous backlog of customers. Of course, it would not benefit Brady`s
>anti-gun agenda to report her own experience with problems caused by NICS,
>as that would simply bolster NRA`s contention that the system is flawed and
>needs to be overhauled. This is not the only issue that leads to diverging
>accounts of Brady`s experience, though. In her book, Brady claims that the
>dealer tried to draw attention to her presence in the shop, claiming “he
>spoke unnecessarily loudly, repeating my name over and over on the phone.”
>But the store owner claims that he didn`t do anything to draw attention to
>the identity of his ironic customer, and because of the problems and delays
>involving NICS, Brady wasn`t even present when her background check was
>able
>to be run.
>
>Of course, the idea that Sarah Brady may not be 100% truthful in her book
>should come as no real surprise. Both she and her organization are
>well-known for putting out extremely misleading and grossly inaccurate
>information in order to further their not-too-well-hidden gun-ban agenda.
>