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Which side of the willing vs stupid line hasn’t been established.
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What barred KA from purchasing a firearm? She had an outstanding misdemeanor warrant which can be an impediment (unlikely in TX), but as far as I know isn’t a convicted felon or convicted of any domestic violence offenses. (Not to say buying a firearm for a proven-jealous significant other is a good idea, I just don’t see a specific bar to her eligibility).
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This has been nagging me too.
I think it’s over for Strickland with racing. He won’t get younger. In his instagram bio it states “I used to ride bikes”.
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I don’t doubt it. Sponsors aren’t interested in drama especially when they can easily replace him with another racer.
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My understanding is that Red Bull decided to stick by him, but everyone else dropped him.
I wouldn’t get near the guy if I was a sponsor….
ETA - and really, how could you show up at a gravel race after what happened, knowing that your actions at least had an indirect causal effect?
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I get it, but that’s a tough deal if you believe the public-facing story. That’s a big if. I suspect there is more to the story than what we’re hearing.
Buying her the murder weapon is probably enough to justify him being dropped. Buying a gun for your girlfriend probably happens 100’s of times a day in Texas, but guns are such a polarizing topic and the optics are obviously terrible in this situation. I don’t know Colin, but I’ve ridden/raced with him (I’m in central TX) and he comes across as a nice enough guy. That said, there are certainly folks in the Austin cycling community who aren’t fans. Nothing I’ve heard makes him a killer or even a terrible human. If the public story is true and the worst thing he did was buy her the gun (which she could have gotten on her own), I feel bad for him losing his livelihood, but that’s the deal with being a sponsored athlete. Just a super sad situation with so many lives significantly affected.
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From what I understand, she was not eligible to purchase a firearm on her own. Why she was barred from purchasing a firearm I have not seen, though.
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I believe some of the initial reports indicated that Ms. Wilson had posted a ride to Strava that started/ended at the friend’s apartment/house and showed her visiting a local bike shop. If so, that may have given Ms. Armstrong enough information to stake-out the friend’s house if she wasn’t able to see Mr. Strickland’s location on her phone.
My wife (non-cyclist) mentioned it to me before Ms. Armstrong was identified as the suspect and I assured her that my Strava settings don’t show the start/stop points of my rides, even when I’m traveling for work.
This discussion is relevant to our community as cyclists, and therefore, has a place on the forum.
However, tangental topics that encourage dissent among athletes that arent constructive to the dialogue should not be part of this thread, or the forum as a whole.
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I’m honestly somewhat surprised that based on the (circumstantial at this point) evidence that Strava ride start/end locations were used to locate the murder victim in this case that Strava hasn’t made any changes. I was expecting something along the lines of “we’ve changed our privacy policy to default to hiding start/end locations in all cases. Users must manually disable this if they want to show locations” from them.
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It was previously used to identify military base and patrolling route locations and they didn’t make that change.
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Yeah, it’s a little stupefying that hiding start/end locations within at least a .5 mile zone isn’t the default for all users. Since the full functionality is already in there, I can’t imagine it’d take more than a few days of work and testing to get it into production.
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Interesting… I though IT was the default…
At least they remove the stalker mode (flyby)
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Strava just gave me a pop-up suggestion the other day indicating that I could hide my start/stop for every ride. 1/4 mile was the default suggestion.
Previously you had to enter your home address as a way for them to give you some privacy which I always thought was a semi-sleazy way to get your address though they never seemed to have sent me junk mail.
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i think new users get this by default now
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This is the second time you’ve posted this “information” but I can’t find any evidence of any “disability”, “ineligibility” or “bar” in any news article I’ve seen. Do you recall where you picked up this “understanding”?
I’m still not defending CS’s decision, and I think it was a stupid and dangerous thing to do with the information he had when he purchased that gun, (read “even without hindsight”) but I’m genuinely curious where this “understanding” is coming from.
Not OP.
When she was originally brought in for questioning, there was an existing warrant that they ended up not holding her on due a birthdate mismatch on the warrant. This might be where this line of argument is coming from, as it seems reasonable that people with outstanding arrest warrants would not pass gun purchase background checks. It appears that at least in 2019 arrest warrants do not prevent you from buying a gun in Texas, I have not seen any reporting that specifically states that she was ineligible to purchase a firearm in Texas. It looks like Colin is legally in the clear here, although he may end up looking bad if it comes out that he bought the gun because he thought she was ineligible due to the warrant, even though she likely wasn’t. (Someone else can track down with the laws changed regarding this since 2019, but I doubt it.)
From: Fact-check: Can you pass a gun-purchase background check in Texas with an arrest warrant for murder?
“You can have an active warrant for your arrest for murder and legally pass a background check system in the state of Texas,” Hinojosa said.
In a press conference Wednesday, police officials said that their “report management system” showed Armstrong to have a birth date in April that did not match the date of birth on an unrelated misdemeanor warrant that police used to bring her in for questioning.
The 34-year-old Armstrong, whose date of birth is November 21, 1987, was initially questioned by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force when the office discovered an outstanding class-B warrant for her arrest.
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If he bought the gun for her as a gift he is in the clear (in texas not all states).
If he bought the gun for himself and she just had access to it (assuming nothing legally prevented her from being in possession of a firearm), he is in the clear.
If he bought the gun her because he/she thought that she could not purchase a gun then that is a strawman purchase and illegal. It doesn’t matter at that point if she could have legally purchased it because of a misunderstanding of what warrants might come up on the background check, the intent then was to avoid the background check for one individual by another purchasing it which is against the law.
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I could swear it was from an early news article, but don’t recall from where exactly. I spent some time digging for it, but at this point, sifting through all the articles is proving to be impossible. It’s possible I’ve misinterpreted it.
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You’re right. I read it in numerous articles when the story first broke. Something along the lines of; “Strickland recently purchased two guns. One for himself and one for her as she couldn’t purchase a gun due to an existing warrant”.
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