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<blockquote data-quote="oldngray" data-source="post: 1405184" data-attributes="member: 45230">Billionaire Allen backs gun control while trying to buy German tankThe <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Paul-Allen-sues-over-German-tank-purchase-gone-bad-5749592.php" target="_blank">San Francisco Chronicle</a> today is reporting what must qualify as the zenith of “let me see if I have this straight” situations when it revealed that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who <a href="http://www.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/CommitteeData/contributions?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ====&amp;year=2014&amp;type=initiative" target="_blank">donated $500,000 </a>to the Initiative 594 campaign on Aug. 11, is now in a legal battle over possession of a – are you sitting down? – WWII German tank.“We looked through I-594 and discovered why he’s probably hot to purchase that Panzer,” Gottlieb said. “Tanks appear to be exempt under the gun control measure because they’re not specifically mentioned anywhere in those 18 pages. So, Allen wouldn’t have to go through a background check. But who needs a tank to go duck hunting?“Evidently,” Gottlieb observed, “the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is the size of the guns they want to own.<a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/billionaire-allen-backs-gun-control-while-trying-to-buy-german-tank" target="_blank">http://www.examiner.com/article/billionaire-allen-backs-gun-control-while-trying-to-buy-german-tank</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="oldngray, post: 1405184, member: 45230"] [SIZE=6][B]Billionaire Allen backs gun control while trying to buy German tank[/B][/SIZE] The [URL='http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Paul-Allen-sues-over-German-tank-purchase-gone-bad-5749592.php']San Francisco Chronicle[/URL] today is reporting what must qualify as the zenith of “let me see if I have this straight” situations when it revealed that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who [URL='http://www.pdc.wa.gov/MvcQuerySystem/CommitteeData/contributions?param=V0FTSEFHIDEwMQ====&year=2014&type=initiative']donated $500,000 [/URL]to the Initiative 594 campaign on Aug. 11, is now in a legal battle over possession of a – are you sitting down? – WWII German tank. “We looked through I-594 and discovered why he’s probably hot to purchase that Panzer,” Gottlieb said. “Tanks appear to be exempt under the gun control measure because they’re not specifically mentioned anywhere in those 18 pages. So, Allen wouldn’t have to go through a background check. But who needs a tank to go duck hunting? “Evidently,” Gottlieb observed, “the difference between billionaires and the rest of us is the size of the guns they want to own. [url]http://www.examiner.com/article/billionaire-allen-backs-gun-control-while-trying-to-buy-german-tank[/url] [/QUOTE]

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