“[A]s a practical matter … if you are a farmer, 30 miles from town and you want to transfer a shotgun to a neighbor, you’ve got to go 30 miles into town, find the federal licensed firearm dealer, fill out the paperwork, pay the fee, have the background check and then you have a responsibility to keep those records for inspection by the government and that’s a huge burden on citizens.” - Asa Hutchison, former Republican congressman who led the National Rifle Association’s school safety initiative.
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“[A]s a practical matter … if you are a farmer, 30 miles from town and you want to transfer a
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Today in stories which would’ve made good “Seinfeld” plots back in 1994.
Stealing to gamble: Two DC-area Metro workers have been arrested, accused of a scheme to steal coins from fare machines and spend them on lottery tickets. Federal prosecutors allege the duo, John Haile and Horace McDade, defrauded the machines while on shift together; the investigation was launched after a source reported that Haile would regularly buy lottery tickets using bags of $500 or so, all in coins. Is it that hard to find a Coinstar, man? Haile’s records, and this is the crazy part, show $150,000 in unexplained income since 2008. As lottery officials told the authorities, to secure even just the winnings confirmed to them, he had to have been buying “an extraordinary amount of tickets.” (Photo by Eric Fisher) source
Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday, three days after a drunk-driving arrest, saying he was leaving with a “heavy heart” but was “unwilling to let anything cast a shadow” on the agency he headed since 2009.
A few hours earlier, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood appeared to set the stage for the departure by publicly rebuking Mr. Babbitt, telling reporters he “was very disappointed” the FAA chief hadn’t promptly informed him about Saturday’s incident.
The news comes in the wake of an acronym-filled arrest.
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