“I am serious though, please somebody tell me what is the ‘gun show loophole’.
It is a scary sounding phrase they spew. It is related to individuals, not dealers, who buy space for a booth at a gun show. Here in GA, there is no NICS check or form required for a private sale between individuals, whether at a gun show or McDonalds parking lot. Buying from a licensed dealer at a gun show requires NICS check and form.
Yes. The idea is to use NICS records (which by law are not permanently kept) to build a secret and illegal national registry of who owns guns .... for confiscation later.
Forcing FFL's to go out of business (when by law they have to send all their FFA Yellow Sheets to the ATF for preservation) would serve somewhat the same purpose, hence the proposals to burden FFL's unduly (and break them).
That was done once by Slick in the 90's, when FFL licenses were increased in cost about fourfold by Slick's Midnight Basketball Act. Large numbers of smalltime, basement-table FFL's turned it in (about 3/4 of all FFL's at the time).
Two things to remember:
The illegal registry-building, in the face of repeated Acts of Congress, went on even during the administration of Bush 43. Remember that.Two: Business-class (RiNO, e-GOP, "moderate") Republicans are not your friend. The Pew Sociology Survey in the 1990's (updated periodically since) showed that, on the Right, support for RKBA is weakest among the RiNO group. This is because country-club Republicans and businessmen don't like their employees and helper class owning firearms. They get rich by being unpleasant and underhanded sometimes, and they want to be able to do such things with impunity and with the support of the law, and of LEO's everywhere. Pew's information workers identified, for gun-control supporters, this particular group on the Right as being most likely to roll over, with the right approach, on the 2A rights of other conservatives. (Pew is, after all, a liberal think tank.)