Well, since Delaware accidentally blew their own whistle when they denied that women from getting a firearm because she had never purchased one before
That doesn't even sound right. The only thing to prevent her from buying a gun was the FFL check at the place of purchase. Must be more to this than meets the eye. What was the source of this statement. Was it in a newspaper, magazine, or on TV. As long as she was of legal age and no prior infractions, there is no reason she would be denied. "Because she had never purchased one before" is not a ligitement reason for denial. Something smells.
I tend to make up a lot of things, mostly because of the excessive peyote usage -- but this was in TNJ several years ago. I believe that it had a couple of articles associated with it, which fleshed-out a few of the sordid details. I can't find anything with TNJ, but our friends to the north had the following (but I couldn't get TNJ's link to the article to actually work):
http://forum.pafoa.org/showthread.php?t=36537I live in the State of Delaware. An 81-year old woman tried to buy a .22 pistol and was denied by the Delaware State Police. Her hang-up uncovered some unethical and illegal practices governing gun purchases by the Delaware State Police.
According to MacLeish [Delaware State Police Superintendent] , the transaction was halted over concerns "based upon age and gender."
As to whether age and gender are included in the state statute as legitimate reasons to reject a firearms purchase, MacLeish stated, "No, they are not."
That's not the only thing that prompted me to post this:
Lawson [Retired DSP] said Nefosky [Current DSP Firearms Approval Unit] told him he searched seven years of firearms transaction records to see if Vansickle [81-yr old] had ever bought a gun before.
In an interview with The News Journal, MacLeish claimed all paper firearms records are destroyed every 60 days.
The electronic records, however, are another story.
Lawson also knew the gun records should have been destroyed.
MacLeish would not allow Nefosky to be interviewed.
You can see the full article here:
http://www.delawareonline.com/articl...0280392/0/NEWS