The National Hammer Association must be held responsible: Run On Guns Has Now Forced Poor Robbers To Stick Up Banks At Hammerpoint

"That's it. This has got to stop.  Let's start immediately to begin background check to purchase hammers, a National Registry for people who own hammers, and limit quantity of hammers a person can own. We have got to fix this. There needs to be a ban on assault hammers and the number of nails they can hold. In NY only seven nails and federally only 10 nails. Should we make the punishment for possession of a ball peen hammer be more severe than for a general utility hammer? It should be. Not to mention assault firing framing hammers. And think of how those poor street crews will suffer everywhere when jackhammers are get banned. We need background checks at all hardware and home improvement stores and at least a three day waiting period. Really, it's the bank's fault for not having "hammer free zone" signs posted. Ok libtards, it's your move. Let's get cracking on this problem, get it solved, and then we can move on to jobs and the economy." MC

Has the recent run on guns made it difficult for robbers to be properly outfitted for bank heists?
A 61-year-old man is facing a federal felony charge in connection with the hammerpoint stickup Wednesday of an Anchorage, Alaska bank, according to an FBI affidavit.

Investigators allege that Alan Bronson Rice walked into a KeyBank branch and removed a hammer from a
small backpack. When Rice placed the tool on the counter at a teller’s window, a KeyBank employee asked “what he was going to do with the hammer.”

After motioning that he would strike teller Houa Vue with the hammer, Rice announced, “I need your money. Give me your 100s and 50s. I’m gonna hit you with this hammer. Hurry up!” Vue handed Rice $1039 and he exited the bank at 2:40 PM.

Rice was subsequently arrested several blocks from the KeyBank (a cop found him sitting on a bench). A search of Rice’s backpack turned up a hammer, and “money with a tracking device” was recovered from his pocket.

While in custody at the FBI’s Anchorage office, Rice asked if he could make a statement. He then noted that he “wanted to be released so that he could leave the country to serve his god.” Rice, who is being held in an Anchorage jail, is scheduled for an initial appearance this afternoon in U.S. District Court.