Capt. Mark Kelly - REALLY? An AR AND extra mags? Your double standard is showing!!

[ezkl2230]

Mark Kelly, on the afternoon of March 5, bought an AR-15 from Diamondback Police Supply in Tucson, Arizona. In addition to his impulse “assault weapon” purchase, Kelly also picked up some AR magazines and a 1911.

Hmmm... I wonder how Bloomie feels about this one? One of his puppets buying an evil black gun and "high capacity" mags just weeks after testifying on his behalf in public hearings? And when he was caught, Kelly posted to his FB page,

I just had a background check a few days ago when I went to my local gun store to buy a 45. As I was leaving, I noticed a used AR-15. Bought that too. 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.

EDITORIAL: Capt. Mark Kelly Caught Buying AR-15 and magazines - One of Us?

OK. First, does it strike anyone else that he's complaining about a lack of background checks even as he has just had one?

Second, he's complaining about the speed with which the background check was completed. Excuse me, this is the age of computers and connectivity. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE QUICK!

And the icing on the cake, when he was caught, suddenly he's going to turn it over to the police when he gets possession. So we're supposed to believe he bought the gun AND extra mags just so he could turn them over to the police and prevent them from being purchased by someone else who would have to go through - and pass before being allowed to purchase - the same background check he just passed. Incredible.

 

[guitargain]

Liars all of them.

 

[apvbguy]

and to boot, he probably used his anti gun foundation's money to purchase the weapons

 

[schadenfreude]

Hmmm... I wonder how Bloomie feels about this one? One of his puppets buying an evil black gun and "high capacity" mags just weeks after testifying on his behalf in public hearings? And when he was caught, Kelly posted to his FB page,

EDITORIAL: Capt. Mark Kelly Caught Buying AR-15 and magazines - One of Us?

OK. First, does it strike anyone else that he's complaining about a lack of background checks even as he has just had one?

Second, he's complaining about the speed with which the background check was completed. Excuse me, this is the age of computers and connectivity. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE QUICK!

And the icing on the cake, when he was caught, suddenly he's going to turn it over to the police when he gets possession. So we're supposed to believe he bought the gun AND extra mags just so he could turn them over to the police and prevent them from being purchased by someone else who would have to go through - and pass before being allowed to purchase - the same background check he just passed. Incredible.

Not at all surprising.

He is nothing more than an Leftist shill (in spite of his claims that he and his wife are gun owners) and his behavior is nothing more than an expression of his "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. The Left loves to trot him and his wife out 'cause they claim to be gun-owners and the anti-2A crowd thinks that his and his wife's opinion resonates with the American gun owner, but that doesn't make him or her pro-2A anymore than me owning a piano makes me a concert pianist (I ain't).

Now this useful fool has been caught with his hand in the "cookie jar" and he comes up with the laughable excuse that he was gonna "turn the AR15 over to the Sheriff's Dept" after the paperwork clears as if he was doing this to protect the public from the rifle. Yeah...right. :sarcastic:

If he thinks anyone is buying that claim, he is even more foolish than I suspected.

 

[ezkl2230]

Not at all surprising.

He is nothing more than an Leftist shill (in spite of his claims that he and his wife are gun owners) and his behavior is nothing more than an expression of his "do as I say, not as I do" mentality. The Left loves to trot him and his wife out 'cause they claim to be gun-owners and the anti-2A crowd thinks that his and his wife's opinion resonates with the American gun owner, but that doesn't make him or her pro-2A anymore than me owning a piano makes me a concert pianist (I ain't).

Now this useful fool has been caught with his hand in the "cookie jar" and he comes up with the laughable excuse that he was gonna "turn the AR15 over to the Sheriff's Dept" after the paperwork clears as if he was doing this to protect the public from the rifle. Yeah...right. :sarcastic:

If he thinks anyone is buying that claim, he is even more foolish than I suspected.

Yeah, and the left don't realize that "astronaut" doesn't inspire the kind of awe and immediate credibility any more as was once the case. Dangerous work - I don't take that from them, but it's behind him now. if he had gone to the moon or beyond, it would probably be different.

 

[S&W645]

I want to know if he had one check for the 1911 and one for the AR. He doesn't say when he bought the pistol, only that he was picking it up. There is more to the story as why didn't he take the AR with him?

 

[Warrior1256]

I just love it when one of these "holier than Thou" people get caught with their hand in the cookie jar and then try to lie out of it. Very entertaining!

 

[dcselby1]

Hmmm... I wonder how Bloomie feels about this one? One of his puppets buying an evil black gun and "high capacity" mags just weeks after testifying on his behalf in public hearings? And when he was caught, Kelly posted to his FB page,

EDITORIAL: Capt. Mark Kelly Caught Buying AR-15 and magazines - One of Us?

OK. First, does it strike anyone else that he's complaining about a lack of background checks even as he has just had one?

Second, he's complaining about the speed with which the background check was completed. Excuse me, this is the age of computers and connectivity. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE QUICK!

And the icing on the cake, when he was caught, suddenly he's going to turn it over to the police when he gets possession. So we're supposed to believe he bought the gun AND extra mags just so he could turn them over to the police and prevent them from being purchased by someone else who would have to go through - and pass before being allowed to purchase - the same background check he just passed. Incredible.

nI just read that he's not going to "keep it." He's going to "turn it in to the police department." Oh, and he bought it to see "how the forms worked."

 

[gejoslin]

It's OK because he's an elitist! Their better than the rest of us poor commoners! Why should we have "weapons of war" like that 45 he was picking up or a AR 15 and standard cap mag's. We're just subjects! We can't have modern sporting rifles to use for hunting, sporting competitions and self defence. We're slaves and have no right to THOSE kind of guns! But if you're an astronaut, well sure step right up sir! Would you like that gift wrapped Sir?
They just never cease to amaze me!

 

[ezkl2230]

I want to know if he had one check for the 1911 and one for the AR. He doesn't say when he bought the pistol, only that he was picking it up. There is more to the story as why didn't he take the AR with him?

Good question! If it was a standard AR he should have been able to take it with him immediately upon passing his NICS check.

 

[GaT]

Maybe we can send him to the Moon and forget to bring him back, wait we can also send all of his friends.:smile:

 

[2Awarrior]

On CNN he made it sound like he was doing research, on things he "needed to be familiar with" in his gun control crusade.

This thing with Kelly getting caught buying the AR reminded me of an article in Esquire Magazine back in the seventies.
They used to do a "Dubious Achievement Awards" piece every year, that was kinda like the Darwin Awards - people getting caught doing stupid stuff.
That year, this college professor (we'll call him Kark Melly) got caught coming into the US with volumes of foreign pornography (you young guys - this was before the internet, we had to actually buy porn...). The professor claimed he was "doing research" on porn for a book he was writing on the topic.

Sound familiar?
Are all Shuttle pilots this dopey?

Gabby deserves better, bless her.

 

[BluesStringer]

Gabby deserves better, bless her.

Sorry, but no she doesn't. Regardless of the legitimate sympathy one might have for her being shot and permanently damaged, she's still a leftist and always has been. She's now literally sleeping with the enemy. She deserves all the derision, distrust and condemnation she gets from here on out for parlaying her considerable influence into shilling for tyrants.

Blues

 

[gejoslin]

Sorry, but no she doesn't. Regardless of the legitimate sympathy one might have for her being shot and permanently damaged, she's still a leftist and always has been. She's now literally sleeping with the enemy. She deserves all the derision, distrust and condemnation she gets from here on out for parlaying her considerable influence into shilling for tyrants.

Blues

Sounds good to me. Just can't trust those people! Or rather I cain't. Be around the block too many times. Getting cynical in my old age. I guess...

 

[blarg]

so....he says he did it to prove a point.

He demonstrated that a former navy combat pilot and astronaut, with no criminal record, and who is married to a former member of Congress can legally purchase a firearm and excersice his 2nd amedment right. I'm not sure I get the "point" of his point.

 

[dusterdude]

Fuckin hippocrite

 

[ezkl2230]

And now pictures of Gabby with an AR.

Image Leak: Gabby Giffords with AR-15 - Guns.com

You know, I have to say, if someone comes after me with a gun, my response ISN'T to disarm or make it harder for the good guys to get their hands on protection!

 

[Bikenut]

Yeah, and the left don't realize that "astronaut" doesn't inspire the kind of awe and immediate credibility any more as was once the case. Dangerous work - I don't take that from them, but it's behind him now. if he had gone to the moon or beyond, it would probably be different.

And that, in my opinion, is why he is trying to shamelessly use his wife's tragic condition and her notoriety in an attempt to put himself back in the spotlight so he can be famous again.... because even he knows he is just a washed up has been used to be astronaut that has become irrelevant.

 

[S&W645]

Maybe he is trying out for the door gunner's position on the next shuttles.

 

[gejoslin]

Good question! If it was a standard AR he should have been able to take it with him immediately upon passing his NICS check.

Read in one of threads on this forum that in AZ it takes 20 days to run checks on used weapons to see if they're stolen. But that story of his just doesn't hold water. He saw it and bought it on the way out of the gun store. So, when did he discuss this with his "group"?