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

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (74497)	6/27/2012 10:58:02 PM
From: Wayners	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 103300

"some not even old enough to buy beer." The age is only 18 to buy rifles Buddy. It's 21 for handguns. So for Fortune to say you can buy any guns all day is a lie. Also all guns would include full autos and destructive devices like street sweeper semi auto shotguns. Those are not available for purchase by anybody under 21 and require a tax be paid and only weapons manufactured before May 1986 can be transferred and the wait is several months for ATF approval. The cost is prohibitively expensive as all such weapons sell for $10,000 or more a piece. "no deliberate effort by ATF to turn their heads while guns were illegally sold" That contradicts the whistleblower testimony before Congress. Former programs attached tracking devices similar to lojack. Here the whistleblowers said no attempt was made at attaching tracking devices. Again, Congressional testimony under oath. "can buy all the AK-47s that he wants to. " Not true. An AK-47 is a machine gun and is not transferable unless manufactured before May 1986. It's cost is over $10,000 if registered and transferable. All AK-47s referred to in the media are not AK-47s at all but rather semiautomatic copies of the actual rifle. There isn't anything special about them other than they aren't very accurate. They are still semiautos meaning they are not machine guns or assault rifles. "No limits (just so long as he can plop the cash down.)" There are indeed limits and they are by the Federal Govt. The FBI approves all purchases through a background check after a customer fills out a Federal Form and maybe a State Form and shows at least 2 picture IDs and pays the FFL fees of probably $30 per firearm purchases. The FBI can say no to a purchase anytime they want to. They approve all of them via the required background check now done electronically. Don't like the service the FBI provides, don't blame the dealer, they have to follow what the FBI tells them to do. "he is TOTALLY FREE to change his mind about this as soon as he leaves the gun store... (say... by the time he reaches the parking lot )" Also not true. Anybody that sells 5 or more firearms a year without going through a licensed dealer is considered in the business of selling firearms and has to have a federal firearms license themselves otherwise it is a felony for selling firearms without a license, a felony. I really don't have time to educate you on the truths of Federal Gun laws. If you are relying on a Rag to get the truth you will completely wrong.