[privacy] AP: Feds Rate Travelers for Terrorism

[Brian Loe]

On 12/4/06, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
>
> And the *really* clever ones will buy a gun of the appropriate caliber
> from a reputable dealer, making sure the paper trail is squeaky clean.
> Of course, said gun will *totally* fail to match the slug when they run
> the ballistics tests....
>

Folks in the habit of buying illegal guns, committing crimes and
having the contacts to do those things aren't generally ABLE to
purchase guns legally, or especially from a dealer (dealer
transactions always require a federal background check where as
private sales vary from state to state).