Standing Wolf
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Firearms registration is firearms confiscation on the installment plan. How long will it take? That's the only unknown.
Question about gun show loophole--Texas
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Firearms registration is firearms confiscation on the installment plan. How long will it take? That's the only unknown.
jimpeel
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Trust us Tam
After they get the "gun show loophole" closed they will start working on the "Living Room Loophole". Take that to the bank.
After they get the "gun show loophole" closed they will start working on the "Living Room Loophole". Take that to the bank.
Without painting with too broad a brush, there are more than anti-gunners wanting to shut down private gun sales at shows! You should hear what goes on inside before the doors are open to the public (and most private sellers). Many of the same old Winnebago FFL's push the show promoters to ban individual sales simply to sell their wares at retail + 20%. 
Partisan Ranger
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Tam,
As others have stated so well, the 'gun show loophole' is nonexistent. It is a fantasy dreamed up by anti-freedom statists who are taking advantage of the public's ignorance of firearms.
What the anti-gun bigots are trying to do is regulate private sales of guns at gun shows. If we allow them to do this, I can assure you, just as night follows day, that their NEXT step will be to regulate ALL private sales.
These parasites never stop. One 'reasonable gun control law' is followed by another. And another. And another. It does nothing to stop crime, and makes it harder and harder for a law-abding person to exercise his/her rights.
As others have stated so well, the 'gun show loophole' is nonexistent. It is a fantasy dreamed up by anti-freedom statists who are taking advantage of the public's ignorance of firearms.
What the anti-gun bigots are trying to do is regulate private sales of guns at gun shows. If we allow them to do this, I can assure you, just as night follows day, that their NEXT step will be to regulate ALL private sales.
These parasites never stop. One 'reasonable gun control law' is followed by another. And another. And another. It does nothing to stop crime, and makes it harder and harder for a law-abding person to exercise his/her rights.
Ed N.
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Tam,
Pay attention the next time you read something in the mainstream press about the ficticious "loophole." Almost invariably, you will see some version of the following two sentences in close proximity to each other:
"Only gun dealers holding a Federal Firearms License are required to perform background checks."
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"Half of all dealers at gun shows do not have FFLs."
Now catch this - notice that the first sentence said "GUN dealers", while the second sentence just said "dealers." Most people will infer that the author is still talking about gun dealers, but he ain't.
The truth is, half of the dealers at gun shows AREN'T SELLING GUNS! They're selling tools, camo, books, t-shirts, hats, beef jerky, WWII memorabilia, and so forth. Thus they don't have (or need) FFLs.
At the gun shows I've attended (Orlando and Lakeland, FL), very very few people selling guns were not FFLs.
Pay attention the next time you read something in the mainstream press about the ficticious "loophole." Almost invariably, you will see some version of the following two sentences in close proximity to each other:
"Only gun dealers holding a Federal Firearms License are required to perform background checks."
and
"Half of all dealers at gun shows do not have FFLs."
Now catch this - notice that the first sentence said "GUN dealers", while the second sentence just said "dealers." Most people will infer that the author is still talking about gun dealers, but he ain't.
The truth is, half of the dealers at gun shows AREN'T SELLING GUNS! They're selling tools, camo, books, t-shirts, hats, beef jerky, WWII memorabilia, and so forth. Thus they don't have (or need) FFLs.
At the gun shows I've attended (Orlando and Lakeland, FL), very very few people selling guns were not FFLs.
greyhound
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Here in Maryland, they have closed the "Gun Show Loophole". Any transfer by private citizens has to go through the Maryland State Police.
Don't know if that's a reason or not, but of course there's barely any "Gun Shows" here TO "Loophole".
Don't know if that's a reason or not, but of course there's barely any "Gun Shows" here TO "Loophole".
Waitone
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One other factor must be pointed out. Yep, gun control // confiscation is the ultimate goal. A near term goal may be purely political.
The NRA has repeatedly stated that at any given time more people in the US are engaged in gunshows than are engaged in partisan political activities. In other words the political leverage of the gun culture is far greater than traditional political parties. And since competition in politics is ok as long as it is limited to the two big parties, it is reasonable to assume the ruling class may want it shut down.
The NRA has repeatedly stated that at any given time more people in the US are engaged in gunshows than are engaged in partisan political activities. In other words the political leverage of the gun culture is far greater than traditional political parties. And since competition in politics is ok as long as it is limited to the two big parties, it is reasonable to assume the ruling class may want it shut down.
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