You can tell this Zach Seward guy was super psyched to claim it was super easy to buy the SAME gun Ramos used in the Uvalde shooting. He even claimed it was as easy as buying groceries online.
Click.
Checkout.
Done!
Of course, he left out a bunch of details …
We bought a gun—the same Daniel Defense DDM4 V7 assault rifle used in Uvalde. It was like ordering groceries. Click, checkout, done. https://t.co/s5DVw2CvIB
— Zach Seward (@zseward) May 26, 2022
Ahem. Bought?
A few criticisms leveled at this piece are worth addressing:
1. Some view it as a sick "how-to" for would-be buyers of assault rifles, but the point is to demonstrate that it requires no how-to whatsoever. It's one thing to know how easy it is, but a lot more powerful to see it.
— Zach Seward (@zseward) May 26, 2022
Teaching people how to buy guns online, lol.
Oh wait, it gets better.
2. Others think we glossed over the requirement to show up in person at a dealer and pass a background check. We didn't, it's all over the piece. You have to show ID when picking up your online alcohol order, too.
— Zach Seward (@zseward) May 26, 2022
SEE, IT’S AS EASY AS BUYING ALCOHOL!!!
3. Fewer readers, but a few, think it's a dog-bites-man story, or dog-bites-liberal-who-just-discovered-guns. But tell that to the half of our readers who live outside the US and cannot just go buy an assault rifle online. It really is rightly astonishing to most people!
— Zach Seward (@zseward) May 26, 2022
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Assault rifle.
These people.
Left out a few details about ‘buying’ that gun, chief.
Luckily Maj Toure, Dana Loesch, and MANY MANY MANY others were more than happy to school Zach on his story:
You THEN had it shipped to an FFL/gun shop (federal firearms licensee) in the state you live in, filled out a background check there, wait for the person behind the counter to call the FBI and get the okay and THEN left with it. Also had to wait a few days if you live in Cali.
— Maj Toure (@MAJTOURE) May 27, 2022
Super easy.
HA HA HA HA HA
Except he had to go to a FFL, fill out a 4473, wait for NICS to come back clear before ever leaving with it. Funny, I’ve never had to do that for groceries — and in some states you wait a few days. https://t.co/sfjyDKHLeD
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) May 27, 2022
Wait, you mean you don’t have to pass a background check when buying groceries?
Crazy.
This is horribly disingenuous, Zach wants you to just read the title, while in the body of The article, it is apparent that you have to go through a background check because the firearm is not delivered to your front door but to an FFL dealer. https://t.co/BpYsrzPl6R
— Capitalism Cures (@hardunkichud_d) May 27, 2022
Horribly disingenuous is being kind.
I bought a Lamborghini, went to the website filled out the form – boom, done.
What? I have to go to the dealership and fill out a ton of paperwork and pony up $200K?
What. Ever.
See, it's easy to get a $200K sports car! https://t.co/t7YCHAAftT
— Cranky "Republicans Killed My Nephew(s)" Gordon (@StillCrankyAF) May 27, 2022
YAY! LAMBORGHINIS FOR EVERYONE!
Today's lesson, boys and girls, is that if you're going to attempt to pull the wool over everyone's eyes be sure that everyone doesn't know the law better than you do. https://t.co/RPc06FESzC
— NiedermeyersDeadHorse aka NDH (@NiedsG) May 27, 2022
Ding ding ding.
Not a single person in this entire media organization thought this story felt incomplete before publishing it. That’s cultural illiteracy – and it’s just as bad as a news organization devoid of women, or one without the perspective of non-white employees. https://t.co/9IIi5okJ43
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) May 27, 2022
In fact, he seems pretty sure of himself.
Funny, right?
These people are such liars.
You will have to go to an FFL dealer to pick it up. Before you leave with it, you will be subjected to a background check.
Only when you pass the background check will you have “bought the gun.” https://t.co/hvOThjMuyT
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) May 27, 2022
You have it in your hands? Prove it. https://t.co/upcAAjgOGe
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) May 27, 2022
Let’s see a picture of you with it. https://t.co/DeqtgZ23Px
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) May 27, 2022
HA!
Never knew I had to pass a background check to buy my groceries online. https://t.co/U4V9nK1flX
— Hodgetwins (@hodgetwins) May 27, 2022
No you didn’t. You do not have the gun. You will not get the gun until you get a background check and go, in person, to an FFL.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) May 27, 2022
Aside from picking the FFL holder that that will ship to, hearing from them that the gun arrived, going there to fill out the ATF Form 4473, waiting for the background check to return, and in many cases waiting for the three-day cooling off period.
Otherwise totes like Publix.
— Edward Ahlsen-Girard (@efagirard) May 27, 2022
In the end this entire story is about this guy being surprised the background check and vetting is done before pickup instead of in the ordering process.
“It’s like ordering groceries..” if Safeway had access to your criminal records and personal info to sell you a strawberry. https://t.co/kTwahwYUsF
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) May 27, 2022
Liar
— Joe Pilot, MD (@JoeSilverman7) May 27, 2022
"It was like ordering groceries."
Except for having to show ID and the background check. But go ahead, sir. pic.twitter.com/ipTfYf9k2k
— Sean O (@Sean_O_914) May 27, 2022
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA
What a jacka*s.
"We bought a gun online. It was just like groceries! All we have to do is show ID, but you have to do that to pick up an online alcohol order too!
Well, I mean, we didn't pick it up at the FFL dealer or pass the background check.
But we can order it!" https://t.co/vNrWOmTaXb
— Dr Strangetweet or How I Learned to Love the RT (@lone_rides) May 27, 2022
HOO BOY.
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