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�Under the Gun� Documentary Breaks Federal Firearms Law?

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‘Under the Gun’ Documentary Breaks Federal Firearms Law?

Katie Couric and the whole crew should be given the 5 year prison time for commiting a felony!!! The Liberal media keep breaking gun laws and tell people "See what I did... There should be more gun laws so I can't do this." YET they broke many gun laws doing what they just did!! It is infuriating!!! What news anchor brought a 30 rd mag in DC and showed it on air and nothing happened to him? Yet if some Joe blow travels through DC with a 30 rd mag they will be thrown in jail!

The director of Katie Couric’s controversial “Under the Gun” documentary made a startling admission Friday that a producer for the documentary acquired a Bushmaster from a gun vendor in a Wendy’s parking lot in Arizona.

In an interview with The Lip TV, Stephanie Soechtig said that the producer was able to get a Bushmaster rifle and three handguns in less than four hours and without a background check.

“And that’s perfectly legal,” Soechtig said in the interview, which aired in February but has undergone more scrutiny in the wake of allegations of misleading editing in the documentary. “He wasn’t doing some sort of like, underground market.”

The host, incredulous, clarified that a Bushmaster is “one of those massive automatic weapons.”

Soechtig explained that it was the same type of assault weapon used in the Newtown shootings.



The only problem is, as Ammoland points out, if the producer did that, then the documentary team violated federal firearms law.

Under current federal law it is a violation for any person to transfer, sell, trade, give, transport, or deliver any firearm to any person who the transferor knows or has reasonable cause to believe does not reside in the state in which the transferor resides. (18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(5).) Thus, by asking a private party in Arizona to sell the Colorado producer firearms, Ms. Soechtig and her staff induced an otherwise law abiding citizen to commit a federal crime. There was nothing legal about what Ms. Soechtig and her staff did, despite their slanted attempt to portray in their documentary the private sale of firearms as unregulated and legal.

It is also unlawful for any person other than a dealer to transport into or receive in the state where they reside any firearm purchased or otherwise obtained outside that State. (18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3).) Violations of these laws can result in a hefty fine and a felony conviction of up to five years. (18 U.S.C. § 924(a)(1)(D).) Further, if two or more persons conspire to commit any offense, and at least one person commits an overt act in furtherance of the conspiracy, each party to the conspiracy can also face an additional fine and imprisonment for up to five years. (18 U.S.C. § 371.)

Couric has already said that she regrets a “misleading portion” of her new documentary, which was edited to misrepresent the views of the Virginia Citizens Defense League.



Did Director of Controversial ?Under the Gun? Documentary Just Admit to Breaking Federal Firearms Law? | TheBlaze.com
 
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While I hate most of the laws, rules and regulations regarding firearms because those are generally infringements, THIS TIME the law needs to be ENFORCED against these Yellow Journalists!

Stephanie Soechtig should be charged and Katie Couric should be called as a witness!

BTW, No One died at Sandy Hook--only the truth died. The residents of Newtown were paid off!
 
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The left will always get away with this type of stuff. It's gonna get worse fellas. Stand by.
 
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Alright!! A gun store owner is fighting back at these STRAW purchases these TV reporters are doing to make news. This is an ABC reporter and not Couric's reporter but very similar in what they did.

Gun Shop Files Report With ATF, Claims CBS May Have Committed ‘Very Serious Crime’ for Anti-Gun Segment
Jun. 17, 2016 12:22pm Jason Howerton

A gun store owner in Alexandria, Virginia, is accusing CBS News of possibly committing a “straw purchase and procurement of a firearm under false pretenses,” which would constitute a federal crime.

In an anti-gun segment intended to show how easy it is to purchase an AR-15 rifle, CBS reporter Paula Reid bought the firearm at SpecDive Tactical and then transferred the gun to a “federally licensed firearms dealer” just a few hours later.

Ryan Lamke, general manager of SpecDive, told the Washington Free Beacon Reid paid for the rifle with cash, claiming she planned to “undergo training.” He claimed the reporter “refused basic, free instruction of firearms safety under the pretense that she was using the firearm for training with a NRA certified instructor.”

“Due to the information provided in the CBS News report filed today, I suspect Ms. Reid committed a straw purchase and procurement of a firearm under false pretenses,” he added.

The owner of the gun shop, Jerry Rapp, echoed Lamke’s statements, saying an individual is guilty “trying to bypass the legal pathway to firearms ownership” when he or she “knowingly” tries to buy a gun with the “intent of giving it to another person.” He called it a “very serious crime.”

Rapp accused CBS News of “potentially committing a felony just to boost their ratings and mislead the general public.”

Reid defended the purchase and transfer on Twitter Friday:

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Paula Reid ✔ @PaulaReidCBS
Sale, purchase, & transfer all legal. ID'd myself as a @CBSNews reporter 2x during sale (was recorded) & transfer. https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/743785319611383808
9:30 AM - 17 Jun 2016

The Virginia State Police and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives have been made aware of the case. The ATF told the Free Beacon it’s unclear if any laws were broken.

Gun Shop Files Report With ATF, Claims CBS May Have Committed ?Very Serious Crime? for Anti-Gun Segment | Video | TheBlaze.com
 
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Should be interesting how this proceeds.
 
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Gun Rights Group Sues Veteran Journalist Katie Couric for ‘Disregarding the Truth’ in Documentary

A Virginia gun rights group on Tuesday filed suit against Katie Couric, accusing the veteran journalist of defamation for her Epix documentary “Under the Gun,” which first aired at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

The suit names both Couric and the film’s director, Stephanie Soechtig, in the lawsuit. The Virginia Citizens Defense League and two of its members, Daniel Hawes and Patricia Webb, are seeking $12 million in damages in addition to $350,000 each in punitive damages. They are also seeking payment for all court and attorney fees, along with an injunction against further distribution of the film.

The lawsuit offers several examples of what it says are attempts to make gun rights supporters look confused or uninformed when it comes to background checks. Among the alleged tactics are the prolonged moments of pause from gun rights supporters, juxtaposed with gun control supporters seeming more prompt with their answers. Another example mentioned lighting, showing gun rights supporters in a dark light, while putting gun control proponents in front of brighter bulbs.

“The Defendants manipulated the footage in service of an agenda: they wanted to establish that there is no basis for opposing universal background checks by fooling viewers into believing that even a panel of pro-Second Amendment advocates could not provide one,” the lawsuit states.

“The Defendants intentionally disregarded the truth of the actual exchange that had taken place and took at least six intentional steps to manufacture a fictional exchange to support their agenda,” the document adds. The Virginia gun rights group first accused the film of deceptive editing in May after it released the full audio from the interview, compared with what the film actually showed.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201... v2 2016-09-14&utm_term=Firewire_Morning_Test
 
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Good!!!

Hope they win the case against her.
 
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