Posted on 01/22/2015 4:03:07 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Yes it will - unless the alphabet pro-gun organizations quit high-fiving everybody over the recent election and start pressuring Congress to break the FFL-only NICS link. Right now, citizens cannot perform background checks on their own. Until we can, we are screwed.
I say screwed because Bloomberg, et al will flood the various states with their money and push their version of background checks aka registration via initiatives. The Gruberized voters and those who don't give a damn about the registration aspect will vote in lockstep as they did in Washington.
Again, I pound the drum that we have to push our own people to allow any Joe citizen to make a check and cut the ground out from under the Bloomberg crowd. If we don't, we will assuredly have registration enacted state by state.
Even Canada has over turned their registry.
It aint gonna happen.
Private sales without NICs are only in state.
Any fool who sells to a stranger without getting ID is a fool.
You leave yourself open to liability.
I would not BUY from a stranger without some checks.
Anyone want to hazard a guess why NICs did not catch The Giffords shooter?
The Colorado shooter?
The Sandy Hook shooter?
Because the liberals made it illegal to track mentally disturbed people.
All they have to do is lie on the 4473 form.
Maybe Obama Care will help...... /s
Isn’t that evidence that the existing laws are working? They tried, and failed. All 7 of them. How many people tried to buy marijuana, cocaine, prescription pain meds, crystal meth?
“...” the rights of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed....””
That is a mouthful of an open can-o-worms. Most of the “bad” felons already have arms or ready access to them. The “good” felons don’t, and they are everywhere and defenseless for life. Anyone on a given bad or unfortunate day can become a felon. The Constitution and Bill of Rights protections are nearly non-existant for them. Does anyone know where they really stand on this issue? Tomorrow, one might accrue a new perspective...for life.
I know a guy that is scared to have a firearm to defend his family because he has a family member with a record and is frightened that he will violate his release if he visits his home.
It is a mess.
But the left would do well to focus on the mess rather than the law abiding.
This country was far more peaceful when no one was refused the Right to Bear Arms. That changed in June of 1968 thanks to the Democrats and Lyndon Johnson, and this country has gone to hell in a hand-basket ever since. The anti-gun rights leftist government has shown no sign of letting up on their crusade. There is only one way to reset the balance, might get a bit bloody early on, but the really bad people would get culled right quick and the reset lesson would start to take hold on good sense and sensibility.
Only if the transaction is interstate. Intrastate, it’s perfectly legal to sell your firearms to your neighbor or whatever (though you are required not to do so if you know they’re prohibited).
Yes it is. I just found it odd that you were lauding a federal system that you opposed.
Yep. And you know that if they wanted a firearm, they could get one faster than you could.
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