Posted on 12/03/2015 6:48:01 PM PST by mystery-ak
If you listen to political pundits, you would believe that anyone can walk into a gun show, anywhere in the country, and buy any gun on the spot with no background check. To put it bluntly, this is a lie. The myth of the gun show loophole is purposefully misleading people about what are known as private seller transactions. These are basically private sales between two individuals, such as your uncle selling you his old shotgun.
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The requirements to get a gun should be as strict as those when buying a car, which is potentially several thousand pounds of utter devastation in the wrong hands.
You could have a rapsheet a mile long, be on 10 mental illness meds, have passed your test 40 years ago, and leave the lot with the car that same day.
The goal is to stop all private sales, and make sure they go through their NICS system. The end game of that is to create their secret registry of all transactions, as well as the ability to see who is buying frequently. Plus, they can pull the plug on that system at any time, and all sales stop (except dealer to dealer).
I’m afraid you’re right.
My dad lives in Reno NV. He can sell a handgun to his neighbor over the back fence or he can meet him at a gun show and sell it. No paperwork, no checks. If his neighbor buys from a dealer either at a gun show or the dealer’s store, there will be a background check.
I’m in CA. All private party sales must go thru an FFL. Handguns or long guns.
The most frustrating thing about watching the coverage of the gun issue is the ignorance of the current laws shown by the news media. They pontificate on gun control measures that already on the books in the state an incident takes place in. All the measures they say they want seem to be already the law in California, what good did they do, none. A jihadi on a suicide mission doesn’t care about the extra gun charges he might get after he is dead.
Most everything my friends have was obtained through private sales, therefore nobody knows who has what. They may have traded and/or sold some via private sales, including items they purchased initially through a dealer. The law doesn’t require records for private transactions. These sales will never stop, even if some plug is pulled.
***I’m in CA. All private party sales must go thru an FFL.***
Must! But do they? It is SO EASY to circumvent this “Law”.
All firearms (at least most) must be registered. Rifles since Jan 2014. They catch you with an unregistered firearm, it’s not so good.
Care to show me the law for this? It is against the law to keep a written registry of gun owners.
There is no firearm registration requirement in California except for assault weapon owners and personal handgun importers. With very few and specific exceptions, all firearm transactions must be conducted through a firearms dealer. If you purchased a handgun from a properly licensed California firearms dealer and underwent a background check via the state’s Dealer’s Record of Sale (DROS) process, a record of your handgun purchase is already on file with the Department......... Unfortunately, this is not the case with regards to rifles or shotguns. Prior to January 1, 2014, the Department was prohibited by law from retaining DROS long gun information.
We don't have firearms registration. We have DROS. CA DOJ knows every handgun or assault weapon you have ever bought or sold. They know every long gun from Jan 2014 you have ever bought/sold. You can send DOJ a request for all these weapons along with a notorized copy of the form and your drivers license. They sent me a list of all my guns going back decades. I haven't bought a long gun since 2013.
Call it what you want, I call this registration.
>>Call it what you want, I call this registration. <<
Hopefully Trump will destroy those records.
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