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Article: A law? Gun store needs to see duty
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 4, 2009
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No law, says West Milwaukee gun shop owner Adam Allan, demands he
check for felons among the men sharpening their aim in his basement
shooting range. His staffers check identification, but "unless they
put an F on someone's driver license, I don't know they have a
felony,"Allan told a reporter.
Here's an idea: As long as you've got the guy's ID, how about you
log it and later run a check the way you already do for gun buyers?
Or just look on the state's courts Web site, called CCAP, the way
landlords do. Takes all of one minute.
If you find there's a felon in the basement, call the cops.
Felons can't touch guns. The police show up, the felon is hauled
away, other felons grow nervous and ...