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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (689534)	12/21/2012 2:38:05 PM
From: d[-_-]b	Respond to of 1573427

The call into NICS takes a couple minutes usually - if for some reason they are busy or need to look further you can be delayed. Then you will have to wait until they call back with a proceed or denied. Lanza is 20, so he could have purchased rifles - no handguns. Also, if he had been "adjudicated" to have mental issues - he would have been denied - but I suspect there was no records of his mental status. Guns shows - it depends - the shows I go to are membership shows, which means you have to join and be subjected to a background check for any gun purchase from anyone at the show. An FFL gun dealer must always perform a background (NICS) check no matter where they sell a gun, store, parking lot or gun show - period - it's the law. Anyone who is not a dealer can sell their own property to anyone they want as long as that person is not knowingly prohibited from buying guns. How do normal people know this? They don't. I would be in support of free NICS checks to private citizens selling their own property if it was required. Otherwise an FFL dealer will charge about $50 per gun to do the transfer - which for some guns is a substantial sum (compared to there value) and makes it expensive to hand down guns to your heirs as well. Waiting periods make sense only for your first gun - after that they're pretty stupid.