On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 21:21:32 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/3/2015 8:43 PM, wrote:


It is still illegal to conduct a private sale across state lines.
When the CNN crew went to Tennessee and South Carolina and bought
guns, they broke federal laws, on camera. When they took them across
state lines they broke another federal law.
The Tennessee guns crossed 3 state lines and the South Carolina gun
crossed one.
There were at least a half dozen counts at 5 years each. Why aren't
they doing 30 years?



The people that sold them the guns also violated federal law. That was
the point of the whole documentary ... to show how easy it is to
purchase guns with no records kept.


So why weren't they prosecuted?

For all we know, CNN may have informed authorities as to what they were
doing beforehand. IIRC, the purchased guns were turned in to authorities.


It is unlikely that ATF is going to condone breaking a federal law.
The only way they would is if it was a sting that was going to result
in arrests. In that case, ATF agents would have gone along.