Feds Convict Texan for Selling a Gun to Illegal Alien With Texas Driver’s License

[Trlsmn]

It's on the internet, it has to be true!

 

[GRUNDEL]

What a bunch of garbage!

Can you imagine the outrage that will occur when people start refusing to sell to Hispanics? THAT'S RACIST!

If it keeps my *** out of jail I'm down with that.

 

[nilknarf]

It's almost like the feds are trying their best to foment a race war at every turn... shouting "racist" as a smokescreen, playing both sides of the whole profiling issue (as identified here- Arizona can't even think about profiling while private citizens are persecuted for not profiling)... WTF is their game??

If they incite widespread racial violence, will that be the excuse to bring in the UN to help "restore order" and suspend all of our constitutional rights? I don't really consider myself to be a conspiracy theory nut, but what other motivation could this administration have?

 

[Decker]

It's almost like the feds are trying their best to foment a race war at every turn... shouting "racist" as a smokescreen, playing both sides of the whole profiling issue (as identified here- Arizona can't even think about profiling while private citizens are persecuted for not profiling)... WTF is their game??

If they incite widespread racial violence, will that be the excuse to bring in the UN to help "restore order" and suspend all of our constitutional rights? I don't really consider myself to be a conspiracy theory nut, but what other motivation could this administration have?

One does begin to wonder, doesn't he?




-d

 

[spengo]

It's from Prison Planet... take that as you will

 

[nilknarf]

That was constructive...

I suppose their duplicitous positioning could also be easy to chalk up to complete and utter incompetence on every level, but the conspiracy angle is a lot more dramatic/fun, don't you think? I'm not sure which cause of this idiocy would trouble me more...

 

[fyrediver]

Is this story confirmed? I suspect it may be made up.

Hmm, I've looked at many sources and it turns out there was a gun show that day and at that address. There had been a previous "agreement" between Austin PD and the organizer to limit sales to FFL dealers only, but it was in the form of a recommendation. This was reportedly an attempt by APD to limit sales to felons and illegals at this event. Additionally, there was a single reported sale/purchase incident where the illegal was arrested and the seller questioned.

Haven't been able to find anything about the subsequent court case reported in this story except the same story posted on numerous forums.

Bueller? Bueller? Anyone else?

 

[swoop]

It's almost like the feds are trying their best to foment a race war at every turn... shouting "racist" as a smokescreen, playing both sides of the whole profiling issue (as identified here- Arizona can't even think about profiling while private citizens are persecuted for not profiling)... WTF is their game??

If they incite widespread racial violence, will that be the excuse to bring in the UN to help "restore order" and suspend all of our constitutional rights? I don't really consider myself to be a conspiracy theory nut, but what other motivation could this administration have?

I think the motivation is to get Barry O another term.

 

[nilknarf]

I think you're correct, sir!

 

[gallogiro]

Maybe he should Sue the state of Texas for issuing the drivers license. ???

 

[Spad]

This is just bad stuff,our own government under Obangoon and his henchman A.G are wrecking havoc with our justice system, tearing the country apart. Hang on to your wallet, biggest tax increase ever, next will be hide your guns. These are dangerous people. Vote them out, that's if we get to vote...Spad

 

[BigCat]

Does that mean that the police are supposed to continue racially profiling?

Fixed.

On top of the normal profiling, look at what just happened in Arizona. Mandatory profiling.

 

[bcp]

Is this story confirmed? I suspect it may be made up.

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[pokerace]

check this

YouTube - Paul Velte {In-Studio} The Final Assault on 2nd Amendment Rights is in Full Swing - 1/2

google the name at the top of the orig. post.

 

[Sawdust]

This is a very scary precedent....................

 

[Karma]

This was reportedly an attempt by APD to limit sales to felons and illegals at this event.

My thought is that if the man is in trouble for selling him the gun, the State of Texas should have their *** in trouble for issuing him a drivers license!!! Again, where is the federal libility in not stopping the flow of illegals into this country. If he wasn't here illegally, the many couldn't have sold him a gun.

 

[Gouki]

Racial profiling is a fact of life. I grew up in Texas and Oregon, and it's freaking everywhere. Best thing I have found is to just be polite and you will receive the same treatment in turn. Been pulled over, ID ran, etc., no ticket and issued a "have a nice". Police are people too. It'd be nice to see more juggalos stopped though...

 

[Ragingpit]

So what the court said in essence is that the seller should have "racially profiled" the buyer? Wow! Talk about a double standard!

+1, Feds sue AZ for "Racially Profiling in the future" but throw this guy in jail for not Profiling.... what a joke!

 

[Ragingpit]

check this

YouTube - Paul Velte {In-Studio} The Final Assault on 2nd Amendment Rights is in Full Swing - 1/2

google the name at the top of the orig. post.

Glad to see someone else post this video.... Love Alex Jones

 

[8ball]

I've yet to find a credible source (prisonplanet is not one) but according to an eyewitness from the Texas State Rifle Association this story is more than just 'he sold a gun to an illegal'. It was obviously a straw purchase.

https://www.tsra.com/index.php?opti...gun-show-chaos&catid=55:tripp-talk&Itemid=113

On Saturday three young Hispanic men came by Mr. Copeland's table and asked about a handgun. One wanted to make a purchase and Mr. Copeland asked him if he had identification. The intended purchaser did not, although one in the group produced a Texas driver's license. The three moved on.

Three times the three young man came by the table and on the third pass, the young man with the driver's license, produced the cash, and bought the handgun. Evidently the gun was passed off, almost immediately, inside or outside the building, to another of the three. This man, not only had no identification, he was an illegal alien.

The three were arrested and officers came to Mr. Copeland's table and confiscated his firearm. I received a text message and then a cell phone call from a TSRA member standing at the table as it happened.

Mr. Copeland was not "taken away", only the firearms on his table for sale. When we talked with him on the phone and asked him why he broke the "rules" of the show, he said, "By golly, it's my constitutional right."

...

He says he was convicted by a "jury of his peers", his words, for knowingly participating in a straw-purchase; that is, knowingly selling to a person not illegible under state and federal law to purchase or possess a firearm.

Mr. Copeland had legal counsel and did not complain about the quality of his representation. He was shocked the jury didn't believe that he sold the gun to the person with the driver's license and didn't know the gun would be handed off to the illegal.

The original story didn't mention any of that of course, so everyone flies off the handle as usual.