This isn't a straw purchase. Intending to do something with the firearm AFTER the purchase AS the purchaser is called "exercising your property rights under common law". There's plenty to decry about liberal hypocrisy, but people who don't know anything about firearms purchases aren't all on the left side of the aisle, as this pointless article demonstrates. The guy's clearly no genius, and has suffered a terrible personal tragedy. You want to argue that firing him would be a great way for NASA to save a few bucks in the wake of the sequester, based on his demonstrated mediocre integrity and judgement skills, have at it. But ginning up bogus felonies out of whole cloth like this is like picking on Sarah Palin's kids. Grow up, Pavlich.

And once again, LD's artful and delicate brand of sarcasm flies right past the first twenty rows of fans in the bleachers... Well done, LD. Well done.

Since they pulled the unfired rifle out of Lanza's car trunk in the parking lot after the fact, that must have been one hellacious rifle. It killed all those kjids without any human's help, then put itself back in the car trunk before the police arrived. The wheels are coming off this crapwagon of a story.

There's news video of a CT trooper pulling the unused "assault weapon" Bushmaster out of Lanza's car trunk HOURS after he was cold and dead. This was all handguns.

I'm a conservative gun-owner, and *I* think LaPierre was an idiot. The answer isn't carping for "security guards". LaPierre thinks he'll get former Marines and Army paratroops freshly out of the military. What he'll get is a federal security force, made up of transgendered Eskimo weight-challenged special ed dropouts with seeing eye dogs - and guns. It will rapidly be added to the TSA's portfolio, and unionized to ensure ever more loyal Democrap voters. And blaming "violent movies" is beyond retarded. Which violent movies shall we ban? Ben Hur? The Ten Commandments? Star Wars? Saving Private Ryan? LaPierre should leave movie criticism and gutting the First Amendment to limousine liberals. Just let adults carry concealed, wherever.

Of course they do. How could they be expected to live under the rules they pass for the peasantry?