BS VS Facts the above story shows how this BS starts.
Writer at “The Tab” blatantly lies about buying an AR-15
Cody Davis asserts, through vague language and subtle implications, that he was fully able to purchase an automatic rifle in five minutes with no obstacles presented to him, using this story to make a grim point on the availability of firearms to would-be mass-shooters. This is a very telling anecdote that highlights the ridiculousness of the current system.
At least, it would be, if it were true.
Anyone will find that
Cody Davis failed to ever actually make the purchase. In fact, he is presented with the paperwork necessary to be given the firearm, but stops short of completing it.
“After he walked me through the paperwork, all five pages of it, I told him I changed my mind and wanted to think more before I bought an AR-15. He told me it wasn’t a problem and listed the store hours if I wanted to come back. I then said thank you and walked back to my car.”
In this quote, we see that Cody Davis never actually turned in the “paperwork.” Readers that are familiar with the process of buying firearms will now that this is most like a Form 4473, along with a variety of papers used in making background checks.
“Seconds. It took seconds for the salesman to take an AR-15 off the shelf and begin selling it to me. If I had stayed for maybe three minutes longer to fill out less paperwork than I did for the hiring process at my school’s bookstore, I would’ve driven home with an AR-15.”
Cody Davis is, unfortunately, naive on this point. Had he turned in his paperwork, the workers would have ran his answers and the Form 4473 through a series of national databases and FBI lists, digitally cross-referencing his name and information.
After the minutes, hours, days, or weeks it might take for his name to clear, he would then be informed that he can come back and purchase his gun. Maybe he would’ve been able to, maybe he wouldn’t have. We don’t know, because we do not know Cody Davis, and he never actually applied for the firearm.
What Cody Davis has done is the equivalent of filling out an application to work at NASA, never sending it in, then claiming that they were willing to hire you.
