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WHOOPS! Intrepid CBS News reporter told who to call if undercover gun purchase backfires

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As we told you yesterday, a CBS News producer with no criminal record who bought a legal product has been the big “scoop” among the anti-gun Left.

As it turns out, in addition to helping pad the AR-15 sales numbers, the CBS News purchase ended up raising eyebrows at the gun store and has been reported:

https://twitter.com/JGreenDC/status/743783846043353088

From Stephen Gutowski at the Free Beacon:

The gun store where a CBS News employee purchased a gun for a segment that aired Thursday on “CBS This Morning” has filed a report with the Virginia State Police and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives over concerns the purchase was unlawful.
[…]
The store said they contacted the ATF after viewing the report because they feared the misdirection used by the CBS reporter constituted a straw purchase, which would be a federal crime.

Can you say “backfire”?


https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/743796728143437824
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/743796870707843072

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What say you, Justice Department?

That’s what we’d expect.

But on the off chance CBS News has any legal trouble over the gun purchase, they were informed who to call:

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