{"id":2515,"date":"2013-02-26T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/02\/26\/an-impertinent-question-in-wake-of-ca\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:21:07","slug":"an-impertinent-question-in-wake-of-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2515","title":{"rendered":"An Impertinent Question In The Wake Of The Call For Universal Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14166,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/michaelbane.blogspot.com\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/gun-owner-felon.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260420005359\\\/https:\\\/\\\/michaelbane.blogspot.com\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/gun-owner-felon.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:51:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:51:46&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14167,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/politics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/25\\\/gun-debate-gun-crime-prosecutions-on-decline-amid-call-for-more-laws&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.foxnews.com\\\/politics\\\/2013\\\/02\\\/25\\\/gun-debate-gun-crime-prosecutions-on-decline-amid-call-for-more-laws&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14168,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/judiciary.house.gov\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/02222013.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/judiciary.house.gov\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/02222013.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14169,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/video.foxnews.com\\\/v\\\/2188760403001&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20220520090102\\\/https:\\\/\\\/video.foxnews.com\\\/v\\\/2188760403001\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/video.foxnews.com\\\/v\\\/2188760403001&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:51:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 08:51:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nI suppose it is impertinent to ask why we need universal background checks when the Obama Administration won&#8217;t even prosecute cases involving straw purchases. The correct answer is that we don&#8217;t. These laws, if passed, will become <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelbane.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/gun-owner-felon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another of what Michael Bane calls &#8220;flypaper laws&#8221;.<\/a> That is, laws that make it difficult not to violate the law. <\/p>\n<p>Fox New&#8217;s William LaJeunesse, who did superb reporting of Project Gunwalker, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2013\/02\/25\/gun-debate-gun-crime-prosecutions-on-decline-amid-call-for-more-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now turns his attention to the lack of enforcement of the law against straw purchases<\/a>. In 2010, only 62 people were prosecuted for it and only 13 were convicted or pled guilty. This lack of prosecutions led Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and the Republican members of that committee <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/news\/2013\/02222013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to send a letter last week to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder<\/a> asking why they weren&#8217;t bringing prosecutions for violation of the existing law.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the video of LaJeunesse&#8217;s report <a href=\"http:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/2188760403001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I suppose it is impertinent to ask why we need universal background checks when the Obama Administration won&#8217;t even&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3280,3281,46,3066],"class_list":["post-2515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foxnews","tag-straw-purchases","tag-universal-background-checks","tag-william-lajeunesse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8889,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2515\/revisions\/8889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}