>>You can still rent a table without an FFL, but you can’t sell firearms. <<
WRONG! You can still rent a table without an FFL, and you can sell firearms. The show broker will make you sign a form saying that you are not a licensed dealer and you have sold X number of guns in the past 12 months. Most brokers will allow you to sell up to ten guns if you have not sold any guns in the preceding 12 months. Don’t get caught lying on the form! You will go to federal prison.
Okay. If true, sounds like this is the gunshow loophole they’re complaining about.
Do the firearms you sell using this approach go through any kind of background check?
Not in any state I've attended shows in for the past two decades. No FFL, no firearm sales. It may be different elsewhere. I see how this could be contstrued as a "gun show loophole".