To the Editor: Concerning the shootings with automatic weapons, various solutions have been proposed. One is to have longer periods for background checks before a person can buy. Another is a red-light list of people mentally unfit or otherwise not allowed to buy the weapon.
Both of these can easily be circumvented by having a surrogate buy the weapon. This has been proven, as one of the recent shooters had a surrogate buy body armor and other equipment. It could just as easily been a weapon.
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