Local LEO: Wal-Mart policy pointless

Local law enforcement and prosecutors pretty much blew off the usefulness of Wal-Mart's new Draconian gun policy.

Chris Burbach has some interviews in the World-Herald.

"It's rare to see a legitimately purchased rifle or shotgun involved in a crime," Pottawattamie County Attorney Matt Wilber said.

Often, he said, firearms used in crimes are handguns that had been stolen or purchased in pawn shops, and then changed hands several more times.

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In metropolitan Omaha, Douglas County Sheriff's Capt. Tom Wheeler said the Wal-Mart policies would have limited benefits.

Wheeler said the record-and-alert system conceivably could help catch some straw purchases, in which people who can pass background checks buy guns for people who would be prohibited from buying them.

But again, those would be purchases of rifles and shotguns.

I stand by my usual even-handed stance:

Get bent Wal-Mart.