"Jeremy's" story stinks, and I am left wondering about his identity, his sympathies and his motives. I note the quoted dealer runs buyers through NICS, so it looks like this is more PSH from PMSNBC. And I find it curious the denied checks haven't resulted in a BATFU response for a federal felony by prohibited persons--I guess they're just too busy hounding Red's.A Collier County man is having second thoughts about selling his AK-47 online because of the buyers the rifle has attracted this week. He says most of the people that responded to his Craigslist.org posting are convicted felons.
But re-reading this, it looks like the dealer was just someone the "reporter" picked to interview--Jeremy says "he does a background check on every person." Without access to NICS, how would he do that? And why does this article deliberately obfuscate the realtionship between "Jeremy" and the dealer?
But aside from that, I just did a cursory search on CraigsList and couldn't find a gun being advertised--albeit I only looked for a few minutes. I wonder why the "authorized journalist" didn't see fit to mention CraigsList's "Prohibited or Restricted Items Policy":
Weapons and related items, including firearms, disguised, undetectable or switchblade knives, martial arts weapons, sniper scopes, silencers, ammunition, large capacity magazines, BB guns, tear gas or stun guns.I seriously doubt that "Jeremy" had time to remove his listing as he claims. My guess is, it was flagged and deleted before he would have had the chance, and they probably have his IP blocked from further posting. That is, if he really did so in the first place, and thus far, I see no reason to give him any credence.
You don't think a fair and balanced mainstream establishment news outlet might be pushing an agenda disguised as journalism, do you?