Confused, I have had to get a background check on everything I have purchased at a gun show. Even did one last month when I went to a vendors house to purchase one. How is this a "loophole"?
Confused, I have had to get a background check on everything I have purchased at a gun show. Even did one last month when I went to a vendors house to purchase one. How is this a "loophole"?
You've evidently never purchased from a "private seller" who is set up with a table (or several tables). In that case, it's a cash and carry situation with no background check .
Yeah "gunshow" loophole is really just a way to say "private sales" in most cases. In that case:
- There are people that do that strictly for profit (illegal)
- People that do it for upgrades (legal)
- People that do it to liquidate a collection to pay for unexpected bills (legal)
- Disposing of inherited arms or whatever (legal)
Very simple. You actually bought from legit dealers, and not from any of the multiple individuals selling from their "personal collection"
I don’t know where I stand on whether the gun show loophole actually exists or not but at least one thing about it, if a felon walks into a gun show looking to buy a gun that he can’t buy legally at a gun shop, he can get away with buying one from a private dealer of background checks aren’t required for private gun sales but, if you make it to where every gun sale requires a background check then that’s just one less place a felon won’t go.
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The part I added bold lettering to, is where the rub comes in.
If our government actually adhered to "shall not be infringed," then buying/selling firearms would be no different from any other items at garage sales or trades days.
But if that were the case, there would be no Federal or State invlovement at all... :/
It's all incredibly frustrating.
That's still unfair to call it a "gunshow loophole" because in that example the same person could come here and buy something. Go to Armslist and buy something. The whole "gunshow" thing is just because it's a high visibility place where a lot of trading/buying/selling takes place.
You don’t have to give your SSN to do a NICS check, but even full name, dob, address and DL number are enough to do substantial fraud on your identity. SPII is not something you want to hand out willy nilly to strangers in parking lots.
Just words.....same result. Could just as easy be called the Private Sales Loophole.
we are all real quick to recite, “what part of shall not infringe do you not understand”, but we need to answer, "what part of the entire Constitution do I not understand?”
Those other parts of the Constitution provide the process for changing the laws we don’t feel are correct. The “other side” has gotten real good at using those processes to get the changes they want. We need to get more involved. Sending money to OK2A, GOA, NRA, those are good things to do, but it’s going to take more of our individual time and conversations to get things moving in new directions.
we are all real quick to recite, “what part of shall not infringe do you not understand”, but we need to answer, "what part of the entire Constitution do I not understand?”
Those other parts of the Constitution provide the process for changing the laws we don’t feel are correct. The “other side” has gotten real good at using those processes to get the changes they want. We need to get more involved. Sending money to OK2A, GOA, NRA, those are good things to do, but it’s going to take more of our individual time and conversations to get things moving in new directions.
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