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The way I see it,as a cop he understood that criminals will get guns anyway they can and he was just exercising his right as a citizen selling legal firearms at legal gun shows.
It isn't required to do a backround check as a private seller.
And the "instruments of death" put me over the top.
Prison or probation for cop who illegally sold guns? - seattlepi.com
It isn't required to do a backround check as a private seller.
And the "instruments of death" put me over the top.
Prison or probation for cop who illegally sold guns? - seattlepi.com
Alloway sold hundreds of guns over the course of five years, to hundreds of buyers he did not know, Assistant U.S. Attorneys Bruce Miyake and Mike Lang said in court documents. In doing so, he knowingly permitted hundreds of firearms to enter the stream of commerce, without conducting a background check on a single purchaser, nor engaging in any other safeguard that the law attempts to place on these instruments of death.
All of this is compounded by Alloways status as a police officer for over 30 years -- he personally saw the harm that firearms can do in society. In light of all of this, his behavior was reckless, callous, and offensive in the extreme.
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