Posted on 09/08/2015 1:50:13 PM PDT by PROCON
RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to crack down on gun dealers selling firearms to criminals.
Kaine's Responsible Transfer of Firearms Act would make federally licensed and private gun dealers liable for selling firearms to individuals who are prohibited from owning them.
In a statement, Kaine said gun laws enforced by the federal government have done little to stem unnecessary violence.
He said gun dealers should take reasonable steps to make sure they are not selling to an inadequate customer, but did not specify what those steps would be.
Kaine's effort faces stiff competition from the Republican-controlled Congress.
Oh, YAY, the man's a genius, quit selling guns to criminals!
Why didn't anyone think of this sooner?
Kaine's effort faces stiff competition from the Republican-controlled Congress.
Yeah, those Eevil republicans just LOVE for criminals to have guns...they love dead children.
Lets just hope criminals don’t figure out they can get them on the street a lot easier than they can in a gun shop.
Don’t they already have one of those? What were they waiting for?
If you’re a criminal, you’re not allowed to buy a gun?
Who knew?
Maybe they could just steal them or stand on the street corner and panhandle for guns. /s
Hey... next they can make it illegal to buy meth.
oh, wait...
Or why don’t they just put up signs?
oh, wait...
Why not just outlaw crime. LOLz.
Tim “The Eyebrow” Kaine ..... showing his ignorance, again.
Criminals have really bad trigger discipline, YIKES!
I think the criminals already figured out how to buy illegal firearms.....circa 1700 : )
He’s not showing his ignorance.
He’s showing his evil.
Because it’s not about guns.
It’s about control.
“He said gun dealers should take reasonable steps to make sure they are not selling to an inadequate customer, but did not specify what those steps would be.”
Okay, Bucky, you get back to us when you have it all figured out.
Typical DemoRat redundant stupidity !
Used by the stupid to face time before the ignorant , low-information voter .
Don't get confused, since it already Federal law .
Selective enforcement , maybe ?
Or gun show loophole or cop car loophole.
“Lets just hope criminals don’t figure out they can get them on the street a lot easier than they can in a gun shop.”
A fellow employee where I worked showed me his gun collection. It covered an eight foot long table and it was the worst looking generic, poorly manufactured hardware I’d ever seen. Most were from South America and were copies of popular brands like Glock and Smith. They were all 9mm. I asked where he got them and he said the black employees at work. He said their second purchase after getting an apartment was a gun, which he proved to me they carried in our defense plant. They’d get in financial trouble and he’d buy their gun for $50. I doubt any of these guys bought this trash from a dealer. They live in a world of drugs and dealers. Guns are more common than employment. (They had to take the job or get kicked off welfare. Boy, what a happy bunch of good workers they were.)
I’m pretty sure there’s already a law on the books for that.
The more currupt the state, the more it legislates.
- Tacitus
I bet Liar Time Kaine knows perfectly well what a “Form 4473” is. And what an “NICS Check” is.
Evil SOB is trying to pretend that these things don’t exist.
Or find one in a sack on the children's playground...
Slow Joe is going to be unhappy that Kaine “out-stupided” him...Slow Joe has a copyright on “incredibly stupid stuff written or said out loud”.
Democrats are liars. It’s in their political DNA.
Because there aren’t a dozen laws already on the books about selling guns to criminals.
To be sure, criminals, by definition, are honest enough to abide by the law about not having one in their possession.
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