Mark Kelly and his wife Gabrielle Giffords recently founded a gun-control group called Americans for Responsible Solutions. They advocate for the same three things as their peers: universal background checks, an arbitrary limit on magazine capacity, and a ban on military-style rifles.
So why did Mr. Kelly recently buy an AR-15 and “high capacity” magazines?
Even to buy an assault weapon, the background check only takes a matter of minutes. I don’t have possession yet but I’ll be turning it over to the Tucson PD when I do. Scary to think of people buying guns like these without a background check at a gun show or the Internet. We really need to close the gun show and private seller loop hole.
I’m hoping somebody can help me make sense of this. So, because the background check only takes minutes, we should mandate it to cover private sales? It’s OK to buy an “assault rifle” as long as the intent is to immediately surrender it to the police?
At current prices, an AR-15 costs as much as the GDP of Bolivia. I’m apparently to believe that he blew that money to make some ham-handed point. That, or his response is a matter of “this riding crop? These condoms? I’m, uh, buying these for my dad. Not, um, not for me.”
I’m having trouble not using the word “hypocrisy.” Oh wait, I just did.
ETA: I’ve had it confirmed that the shop was Diamondback Police Supply in Tuscon. Contact them and ask that they refuse to sell to Kelly in the future.
This image also recently popped up, and Giffords is attempting to backpedal on it:
