- WASHINGTON - Gun-control
advocate Sarah Brady bought her son a powerful rifle for Christmas in 2000
- and may have skirted Delaware state background-check requirements, the
New York Daily News has learned.
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- Brady reveals in a new memoir that she bought James Brady
Jr. a Remington .30-06, complete with scope and safety lock, at a Lewes,
Del., gun shop.
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- "I can't describe how I felt when I picked up that
rifle, loaded it into my little car and drove home," she writes. "It
seemed so incredibly strange: Sarah Brady, of all people, packing heat."
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- Brady became a household name as a crusader for stricter
gun-control laws after her husband, James, then the White House press secretary,
was seriously wounded in a 1981 assassination attempt on then-President
Ronald Reagan.
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- Brady writes in "A Good Fight" that the unnamed
gun shop ran federal Brady Law and Delaware state background checks with
great fanfare.
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- The book suggests that she did not have her son checked,
as required by Delaware state law.
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- "(W)hen the owner called in the checks, it seemed
to me he spoke unnecessarily loudly, repeating and spelling my name over
and over on the phone," Brady writes.
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- Amy Stillwell, a spokeswoman for The Brady Campaign to
Prevent Gun Violence, said the federal Brady Law does not require background
checks for intrafamily gun gifts.
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- Stillwell said she did not know whether her son was checked
under the state law. The Delaware Department of Justice says the state
does not have an exemption for family gifts.
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- "Scott is not a convicted felon, and he is not prohibited
from owning a gun," Stillwell said. "Scott Brady could walk into
a store and buy a - he is not a prohibited purchaser."
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- Delaware Justice Department spokeswoman Lori Sitler said
the purchase could be illegal under state law if Brady did not also say
who she was buying the gun for and submit his "name, rank and serial
number" for a full check.
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- "You can't purchase a gun for someone else,"
Sitler said yesterday. "That would be a 'straw purchase.' You've got
a problem right there."
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- Anti-gun control advocates were surprised to hear of
Brady's foray into their world.
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- "We hope that it's innocuous and there's been no
laws violated," said James Jay Baker, chief lobbyist for the National
Rifle Association. "It's obviously interesting that Sarah would be
purchasing firearms of any kind for anybody, given her championing of restrictive
guns laws for everyone." ___
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- Comment
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- From Elizabeth
3-23-2
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- Hi Jeff
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- FOMCLMAO...hahahahaha..hold-on, I'm wiping the laughter
tears..oh me, my sides hurt..hehehehe.. The law is for everyone (all those
unwashed masses) LOL, except the Aristocracy huh? My-My-My, the next thing
we'll hear is that Miss Prima Dona is really a closet Dominatrix....I'm
roaring... hehehehe.. I can see the cartoons...Big woman with a gun held
close to her chest shaking her finger at these little figures of full grown
people... "Now, now, I'm the only one who can have a gun, Mother knows
best."
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