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<blockquote data-quote="gerhard1" data-source="post: 2565371" data-attributes="member: 5391">That a few criminals&nbsp;&nbsp; get guns through gun shows is almost&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; certainly true, but it is also a red herring.&nbsp; When a&nbsp; gun is purchased by a stranger in a cash transaction, it disappears from the radar, in most cases forever.&nbsp; This is what the gun control advocates are trying to stop.Doubt it?Read the words of Nelson P &#039;Pete&#039; Shields, founder and first president pof of Handgun Control Inc., which later merged with another organization to become the Brady Campaign.Nelson P. Shields himself saidThis is their&nbsp; grand plan.&nbsp; Now it is true that the Brady Bunch now say that they no longer advocate a total ban, but I think it is mostly a concession to political reality, more than anything else.&nbsp; Deep down, my hunch is that they would still like to have a toal ban, and they are just biding their time.&nbsp; One thing that we most emphatically should not do is what the British NRA did. In an effort to appear &#039;reasonable&#039; they gave in and supported more and more restrictions until they woke up and found that their efforts to be reasonable had resulted in the nickle and diming away of their rights to guns.I hope to hell&nbsp; that we don&#039;t let that happen here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gerhard1, post: 2565371, member: 5391"] That a few criminals get guns through gun shows is almost certainly true, but it is also a red herring. When a gun is purchased by a stranger in a cash transaction, it disappears from the radar, in most cases forever. This is what the gun control advocates are trying to stop. Doubt it? Read the words of Nelson P 'Pete' Shields, founder and first president pof of Handgun Control Inc., which later merged with another organization to become the Brady Campaign. Nelson P. Shields himself said This is their grand plan. Now it is true that the Brady Bunch now say that they no longer advocate a total ban, but I think it is mostly a concession to political reality, more than anything else. Deep down, my hunch is that they would still like to have a toal ban, and they are just biding their time. One thing that we most emphatically should not do is what the British NRA did. In an effort to appear 'reasonable' they gave in and supported more and more restrictions until they woke up and found that their efforts to be reasonable had resulted in the nickle and diming away of their rights to guns. I hope to hell that we don't let that happen here. [/QUOTE]

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