And for those of us who are less knowledgeable but fiercly support the Second Amendment, can you give me/us a simple way to counteract the liberals’ ‘Background checks are not even DONE at gun shows’? Thanks.
Only private transactions between individuals involving (probably) a single firearm owned by the seller are exempt from the NICS requirement. These sales represent a tiny minority of transactions at a gun show.
Simple. The response is: that is a lie.
I have never purchased a gun at a gun show without some form of background check. Albeit it is fast when you have a ccl.
Neither are used car sales between private parties, but that doesn't stop private individuals from buying or selling used cars, even though 55,000 are killed annually in car accidents each year, and several hundred thousands (perhaps more) are injured to one extent or the other. So using the libturd logic, let's ban all used car sales unless you go to an authorized car dealer, and have the car dealer call into a universal background check, before the used car can be sold.
BTW, 55,000 killed annually in car accidents, many of them being the result of drinking & driving. According to liberal logic, it sounds like liberals should be lobbying to ban automobiles & drinking, or cut the speeds down to 10 mph or less. See how well that would sit with the libturds!
The way I usually explain it is that there is no actual loop hole. It’s a bait and switch term.
If the law requires you to do a background check prior to selling a firearm, you still have to do it if selling at a gun show. (This mostly applies to licensed dealers.)
If the law does not require you to do a background prior to selling a firearm, then the fact that you are selling at a gun show does not change the requirement, and you still do not have to perform a background check to sell the firearm. (This mostly applies to private citizens.)
A gun show is simply a Constitutionally protected natural right to assemble. The place where a transaction is made doesn’t change the law.
Considering that private citizens are not allowed access to the NICS checks, “closing the gun show loophole” is code for banning private sales at gun shows (or perhaps banning private gun sales all together).