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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27352)	3/16/2010 5:29:25 PM
From: Wayners	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

I read the article and you assumed the purchase was made at a gun show using what the politicians call the "gun show loophole". The article said the guns were sold to a licensed firearms dealer. All licensed firearms dealers do a computer background check on the buyer and buyer provides two forms of identification that show residency in that state. The buyer fills out with about 10 questions that would disqualify a buyer. The FBI data is good at verifying 9 of the 10 questions and that is whether the buyer is a convicted felon. The rest are things like habitutal drunk, drug addict, mental illness, renounced U.S. citizenship, etc. and the databases aren't really good enough to check the answers. Within a state if both parties to a sale are both residents of that state then a transfer can be made directly between two private parties without a licensed dealer or background check with at the caveat that if the seller knows the buyer is ineligible then that is a felony to make the sale, it is also against the law for a person to sell more than 5 guns per year outside a licensed dealer. The BATF says that at 6 guns, you are know in the business of selling firearms and must have a license. That's right 5 guns...good luck making a living on that! People always point out look at all the illegal transactions at guns shows. I've been to hundreds of the things, every table has a licensed FFL there who have a storefront in the State somewhere. Yes you occassionally see people bring in a single gun to sell to another resident of the state and yes there is not background check, but stats prove that these guns are seldom used in violent crimes. Most guns in violent crimes are stolen or bought by straw purchase or more likely bought by straw purchase whereby the straw purchaser claims his guns were stolen. Also with the advent of the instant background check, there is no such thing as a waiting period anymore.