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I gave two different ways to read it, you chose which one you thought I favoured. That said, he stated he didn't want to sell it to police departments, not the
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
I gave two different ways to read it, you chose which one you thought I favoured.
That said, he stated he didn't want to sell it to police departments, not the public, who couldn't legally buy it anyway, so I don't see how you think it is obvious that he means criminals when it says police.
"Police departments asked for AA-12s, but Baber decided that the gun was too powerful to sell outside the military."
- aaronem 12y agoI submitted a third reading which strikes me as both more charitable, and almost certainly more accurate, than either of yours were. Nor did he state what you claim he did; it's the article author, not Baber as quoted, who equates civilian police and the military -- if Baber didn't want it in the hands of civilian police, why'd he donate one to the county sheriff?
- adaml_623 12y agoI imagine his motives for giving a virtually unique gun worth $10K to the local sheriff are pretty straightforward. Keeping the local officialdom on his side... probably not sinister just good politics