Faun
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No, liar. You gloss over the narrative in your post that admits firearms are purchased at gun shows from private dealers without background checks.Uncensored is telling a whopper of a lie. Easy to confirm lie.
Someone is sure trying to lie, Comrade.
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Ah, the “gun show loophole”. Your liberal friends have probably mentioned it when trying to convince you that there must be “common sense gun safety legislation” (or some similar liberal terminology).
The erroneous premise is that criminals buy guns to use in crimes at gun shows because gun show purchases don’t require the same background checks as purchases made at firearms retail establishments. This, of course, has been debunked many times but that doesn’t stop liberals from using it as an argument because reality doesn’t matter when a good false narrative will do. Unless guns are purchased from a private individual a background check is required by law. If you, or anyone else, purchases a gun from a licensed dealer at a gun show there will be a background check performed to determine if you can legally purchase a firearm. However, when purchasing from an individual rather than a business, that doesn’t apply because such private transactions aren’t regulated by the government.
“Ah HA!!”, you might say, “THAT”s where all those illegally trafficked guns are bought and sold!” Uh… no. Research shows that only a tiny percentage – less than one percent – of firearms offenders have acquired guns through gun show purchases. So, the old “gun show loophole” is a myth. It’s an often repeated myth, but a myth nonetheless.
Where do criminals get their guns, then? Research shows that criminals steal guns or buy them from other criminals who either steal them or break laws to acquire them, such as making “straw purchases” from legal dealers. One such instance happened in Ohio recently when a man made a straw purchase of two dozen handguns from four different dealers, claiming that he needed them for his job teaching a concealed carry class, and then passed them along to criminals who couldn’t pass background checks. [more]}
The Myth of the “Gun Show Loophole” – The Mark & Mack Show
You've had your ass kicked on this bullshit several dozen times.
You are delusional abour kicking anyones ass.
Again, you anti-civil rights clows trot out the same tired bullshit over and over. You get the shit kicked out of you, then whimper away.
You just fucking said anyone can buy a firearm at a gun show and not be subjected to a background screening by an unlicensed dealer. That’s what you call, kicking our ass. Exactly how senile are you, gramps?
DERP
Same lies from the same retards...
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The “Gun Show Loophole” demagoguery demonizes these individual collectors and portrays them as the source of all of our troubles. What the gun control lobby wants to confuse the public into supporting is the enactment of laws that require background checks on private sales, transfers or loans of firearms.
Certainly, some individuals do come to gun shows to barter, trade, sell or buy firearms – but they are not dealers any more than those who meet at a gun range and choose to trade. If they were dealers, the ATF would force them to register as federal firearms licensees under existing law. And yes, ATF agents come to every gun show, and even flea markets and other such venues, looking for violations of these laws.
So what is the real purpose of the push to close the “gun show loophole”? Since there is no loophole, the purpose is to convince the public to agree to a law that subject ALL private sales, transfers, or loans of firearms to the background check requirement.
If such a law were in place, you could not loan a firearm to a friend for a weekend hunt, trade guns at the range or give your son a deer rifle without going to a federal firearm licensed dealer to conduct a background check. This extension of government into the private lives of gun owners is meant to cause inconvenience and thereby discourage the ownership of firearms. It will especially discourage the gifting and loaning of firearms so often used to encourage someone to join the shooting community.
What this will not do is slow down the acquisition of firearms by criminals. It is already illegal for even a private individual to transfer a firearm to a felon or other prohibited person.
Many people are unaware that studies show virtually all criminals obtain their firearms through black market transactions on the street. Just as gang members deal in drugs and other contraband, they trade and sell firearms, many of which have been stolen in the first place. These dealers in contraband care nothing about laws and will never conduct background checks. Thus these laws only burden the law abiding citizens with the proposed incursions on their Second Amendment rights.
Mass shootings and the Charleston tragedy are no exception. In a public statement the FBI Director admitted that it was a bureaucratic error that permitted the Charleston shooter to obtain a firearm. Improving the existing system under current law may have helped – but no new intrusions on State and Federal Constitutional rights are necessary. As for other mass shootings occurring across our country, the perpetrators commonly pass background checks when they buy firearms through licensed dealers, and we find many more instances where theft, rather than a private sale, is the source of firearms.}
The Gun Show Loophole Myth
Stop lying, ya loopy old fart. You already admitted there’s a loophole, even if you refuse to believe what you post...
However, when purchasing from an individual rather than a business, that doesn’t apply because such private transactions aren’t regulated by the government.