Monday, June 16, 2014

Scathing? Let's try silly, specious, for starters.

Yup, just like having someone buy milk and eggs for me.


Supreme Court rules against 'straw purchasers' of guns. (USA Today, 6/16/2014)

Scalia's dissent for the court's conservatives — not including Justice Anthony Kennedy, who provided the swing vote — was scathing.

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But Scalia ridiculed the majority's assertion that under federal firearms laws, the uncle -- not Abramski — was the true purchaser of the gun. "If I give my son $10 and tell him to pick up milk and eggs at the store, no English speaker would say that the store 'sells' the milk and eggs to me," he said.

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