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illegal gun sales

Thundar

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I listened to that story fairly carefully. I had the impression that the entire thing was about private intrastate transfers. It had nothing to do with real dealers. They were simply mischaracterizing private parties as "dealers" simply because they were engaged in selling their own property. They did have a recording of some "undercover" guy talking on the 'phone with a prospective seller, and saying something about how he was worried he might not pass a background check if he'd bought from a real dealer, and the seller said something about how private sellers don't have to do background checks. That was the most damning evidence they had. (I was thinking at the time that Fox (D.C. air channel 5) is broadcasting this into Maryland, where the possession or use of an unconsensual recording of a private conversation is a felony.)

If they recorded telephone conversations without the concent of the other party, then they commit a felony in the state of Maryland.

Maybe some who are visiting family in Maryland over the holidays can conduct a Bloomie sting.

Or maybe we could get the Cooch to subpoena all of their telephone records and turn over the Maryland recordings over to the Maryland wiretap police.
 
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