On 12/26/2012 06:50 PM, Han wrote:
wrote in :

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:26:01 -0600, Tim Daneliuk
wrote:

On 12/25/2012 08:20 PM, Han wrote:
"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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Han wrote:


Someone thought it was a "good idea" to exempt gun shows from the
need for background checks. I really don't know how to keep a
crazy guy from getting a gun in a country (apparently) awash in
them.


Politicians like Bloomberg like to tout the loopholes in the law as
they relate to gun shows, but it pays to dig a bit deeper. Dealers
are required to perform NICS checks - even at gun shows. Private
individuals are not. So if you show up to sell a gun, there is no
requirement for a NICS check. So - gun shows are not exempt from
background checks.

So the loophole is a little more complicated. The dealer just has
to sell the gun to a bystander who would not fail a background
check. This individual can then just sell the gun to someone who
would fail a background check. I seem to recall a TV report from
one of the major networks, where there were plenty of people willing
to sell a gun to someone who wouldn't pass a background check. I
thin those sales should be officially illegal. Period.



Do you ACTUALLY think this is what gun buyers do? Have you so little
regard for shooter in the US that you think they intentionally peddle
weapons to people they know are unstable or criminals? Gun owners are
- on the whole - among the most law abiding straight arrows you'll
ever find. It's the media that are the criminals ... for telling lies
and getting people to buy into those lies....

...and carrying illegal weapons in DC.

I indeed think that CNN reporter should be issued a summons and if found
guilty, he should NOT get off easy. Obviously if he had a cardboard
copy, that may be an extenuating circumstance. I also think that (if he
had a real working magazine) the person who gave or sold it to him should
go to jail.

Btw, while it may have been legal to publish all those names and
addresses of legal firearm owners in Westchester and Rockland counties,
it was at least highly unethical. That newspaper editor and journalist
need to go for aggravated stupidity.

Perhaps it would even the score to publish the names and addresses of
all those folks who had no firearms?


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