another gun prohibition failure

Posted on: Mon, 09/02/2013 - 23:11 By: Tom Swiss

I'll say it again: gun control keeps guns away from bad guys as well as drug laws keep heroin away from junkies.

Feds cracking down on knockoff NFL jersey operation stunned to find man stockpiling weapons (Yahoo! News)

Federal agents investigating a man suspected of selling knockoff NFL jerseys late last year stumbled upon what the Cleveland Plain Dealer called "one of the most most perplexing seizures of weapons in Ohio" history: an arsenal of 18 guns — including three assault rifles, three 9mm handguns and four shotguns — and more than 40,000 rounds of ammunition.

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“I can’t tell you how he got all those guns and ammunition,” U.S. Attorney Steven Dettelbach told the Plain Dealer. “It’s not that I won’t tell you; it’s that I can’t. This is somebody who should never have had one gun, one bullet. But he had an entire arsenal.”

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Schmidt was found guilty of manslaughter in the shooting death of a 20-year-old, and served 13 years in prison.

The misuse of "assault rifle" aside -- unless he had an actual select-fire rifle -- if we can't keep a guy convicted of manslaughter from getting his hands on as many guns as he wants, explain to me again how we're going to keep guns away from people who want them?