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From: leif@sugar.hackercorp.com (Lee King)
Newsgroups: alt.privacy,comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: CASE: softcopy vs. harcopy records
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.065006.29104@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 29 Mar 91 06:50:06 GMT
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langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner @ The Asylum, Belmont, CA)
wrote:


>In an article in the comp.dcom.telecom Usenet newsgroup,
>dmr@research.att.com (Dennis Ritchie) writes:
>There is reason to believe that C bought a pistol at Ray's Sport
>Shop (oddly, just down route 22 from me in New Jersey); though the
>weapon has not been found, a recovered bullet corresponds with its
>type.
>
>Here's the Telecom connection. The prosecutor has summoned MCI,
>who brought records showing a telephone call from C to Ray's a day
>or so before before the weapon was purchased.


   The question I've got is how did the woman buy the gun in the first
place?  It is illegal for a person to buy a pistol in a state other than
their state of residence and New Jersey has a waiting period/background
check for pistol purchases.  Is there more that we aren't being told? 
Seems to me that there has to be a third person involved if the gun was
bought in New Jersey and used in New York (To legally buy it in NJ and
illegally sell it to the woman in NY).  If the woman accused of murder was
a resident of New Jersey at the time of purchase there would be a Federal
form (4473 I think) at the gun store with her name on it (if she bought it
herself).  
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