dogtown tom
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"Back to the days" meaning today?The Gun Show Loophole goes back to the days when you could do private sales without involving an FFL. If you were Joe NonFFL and had 4 or 5 rifles you wanted to sell you could, in theory, pay the $25 it took to get a table at a gun show and put them out for sale. Then, again in theory, gangbangers could come to the gun show, buy one of your rifles and use it in a drive by shooting. No one ever proved that anything like this ever happened which is why I say; in theory. The Anti2A's got all worked up about this and they've been screeching about it ever since. This was in the late 80's or early 90's when you first started hearing about gangbangers using semi-auto AK's which had just started being imported in largish numbers.
ETA: The point being is that they could buy a gun/guns without the BATF or anyone knowing. Like I said; there's never been any proof that anything like that has ever happened. They labeled this the Gun Show Loophole.
Private sales are not regulated by ATF today.
Your state may.