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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/17/2012 4:12 PM, Donovan Arnold
wrote:<br>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><span style="RIGHT: auto">I just think
you need to hold each person in the chain of ownership
accountable to the degree they were. I really don't believe
that manufacturers are completely unaware who buys and how
their products are <span style="RIGHT: auto"
id="misspell-0"><span>distributed</span></span>. All major
manufacturers know the supply, demand, and logistics of
their business or they would be out of business. However,
they are not as responsible as the person that sells to
known criminals.</span></div>
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I consider what you are suggesting as an extension above-and-beyond
what I was suggesting. I don't object to your ideas, though I
suspect that cases brought to prosecute such crimes would
necessarily be larger and more complicated. Notwithstanding that, I
don't see any particular reason, other than NRA opposition, etc.,
etc., why the federal RICO laws, appropriately amended for specific
application to cases such as these, could not be particularly
effective in providing the basis for assigning responsibilities and
liabilities such as you are suggesting and implying.<br>
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Ken<br>
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