{"id":37635,"date":"2013-09-18T10:54:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37635"},"modified":"2013-09-18T10:54:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T14:54:39","slug":"emily-miller-nyt-got-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37635","title":{"rendered":"Emily Miller: NYT got it wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made the mistake of quoting a New York Times article yesterday in regards to Aaron Alexis’ inability to purchase an AR-style rifle in Virginia because of his residency. But our buddy, Emily Miller of the Washington Times<\/a> sets us straight;<\/p>\n

\u201cVirginia law does not prohibit the sale of assault rifles to out-of-state citizens who have proper identification,\u201d Dan Peterson, a Virginia firearms attorney, told me Tuesday night. The required identification is proof of residency in another state and of U.S. citizenship, which can be items like a passport, birth certificate or voter identification card. <\/p>\n

The Commonwealth defines \u201cassault firearm\u201d as any semiautomatic centerfire rifle or pistol with a magazine which will hold more than 20 rounds or can accommodate a silencer or is equipped with a folding stock. <\/p>\n

John Frazer, also a firearms attorney in the Commonwealth, told me that, \u201cState law in Virginia \u2014 like most states \u2014 allows purchase of rifles or shotguns by residents of other states. Virginia simply requires some additional forms of identification.\u201d<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

Perhaps they were confused with the federal law on handguns, which can only be sold or transferred through dealers in the same state as the buyer. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Miller goes on to say that Alexis passed the required background checks in order to purchase the shotgun, a Remington 870 pump-action, recommended by certain members of the Obama Administration as an acceptable means of defending your home when discharged randomly into the atmosphere periodically. So, the problem isn’t the gun, it’s law enforcement’s inability to update the NICS system in a timely manner.<\/p>\n

Thanks for straightening us out, Ms. Miller, we still love you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made the mistake of quoting a New York Times article yesterday in regards to Aaron … Emily Miller: NYT got it wrong<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}