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Gun Background Checks: How the State Came To Decide Who Can and Cannot Buy a Firearm
Ammo.com ^ | 10/22/2020 | Molly Carter

Posted on 10/22/2020 5:12:56 PM PDT by ammodotcom

Prior to 1968, most adults in the United States could purchase a firearm without state interference. Guns were available in local retail stores, as well as mail-order catalogs, and as long as you hadn’t been convicted of a felony and you had the funds, there weren’t any questions asked.

Things are different now. Depending on where in America you are and what type of gun you want to buy, there’s a good chance you’ll need to pass a NICS-mandated background check to complete your purchase.

Although many people hold a strong opinion for and against gun background checks, they’ve proven to be an integral part of the state's gun control apparatus – and they don’t appear to be leaving anytime soon.

Since background checks are such a requirement for today’s gun enthusiasts, it’s important for gun owners (and those who may someday be gun owners) to understand everything they can, including how the current system works and how it came to be.

(Excerpt) Read more at ammo.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; backgroundchecks; banglist; blogpimp; gunrights; secondamendment
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1 posted on 10/22/2020 5:12:56 PM PDT by ammodotcom
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Bump


2 posted on 10/22/2020 5:20:58 PM PDT by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply.)
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To: ammodotcom

It is the basically the national gun owners registry.

And like communism and abortions, people have been conned into supporting it.


3 posted on 10/22/2020 5:21:53 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (God bless President Trump)
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To: ammodotcom

I bought a .22 rifle and ammo at a hardware store at age 17.

Very different world now.


4 posted on 10/22/2020 5:22:01 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden is China's bitch)
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To: ammodotcom

bookmark


5 posted on 10/22/2020 5:24:24 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Texas resident

I can’t match that but I think I still have a box of 50 22LR that I bought at about age 13 at Ben Franklin.


6 posted on 10/22/2020 5:25:41 PM PDT by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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To: ammodotcom

For those who weren’t around to remember, it used to be one could buy a firearm in most states without the state’s permission. The assassination attempt in 1933 led to the National Firearms Act of 1934 which very nearly imposed NFA taxes and restrictions on all handguns and did lead to taxes and restrictions on silencers, short barreled shotguns and short barreled long guns.

JFK’s assassination in 1963 and the assassinations of RFK and MLK in 1968 gave us the current regulations. Firearm dealers have to be licensed by the FedGov and record all sales. To buy a gun at a dealer one has to fill out form 4473. To buy a handgun one must be one’s own state. It is illegal to give, lend or sell a firearm across state lines without doing the transfer through a federally licensed dealer.

Because of all these laws, what is called ‘gun violence’ by the libs has pretty much vanished from the land.

/s


7 posted on 10/22/2020 5:27:02 PM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ammodotcom

And they “don’t deserve” to know your plans for SCOTUS, right Joe?


8 posted on 10/22/2020 5:28:32 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ammodotcom

And I’ve got a bridge to sell anyone who thinks they actually destroy those background check records once the sale is approved. Assume there’s a federal registry of every dealer purchase you’ve made since the background check went into effect.


9 posted on 10/22/2020 5:30:58 PM PDT by circlecity
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In 1962, while we were spending the summer at the lake, I would bicycle into town, with my Model 52 Winchester, and buy a box of .22 LR hollow points, at the Store, (Gas station, general store, tavern, diner, and they had a deep freezer for fish.) I'd go out to the Dump, I think the only one in the world, and shoot rats.

The idea that my son could have done that without some Democrat having a stroke...

10 posted on 10/22/2020 5:36:14 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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In 1962, while we were spending the summer at the lake, I would bicycle into town, with my Model 52 Winchester, and buy a box of .22 LR hollow points, at the Store, (Gas station, general store, tavern, diner, and they had a deep freezer for fish.) I'd go out to the Dump, I think the only one in the world, and shoot rats.

The idea that my son could have done that without some Democrat having a stroke...

11 posted on 10/22/2020 5:38:00 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: ammodotcom

I actually purchased a handgun this week. Process was pretty smooth and only took a few minutes. After that I went on a friends boat and the gun accidentally fell in the lake. Darn it.


12 posted on 10/22/2020 5:40:08 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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***Prior to 1968,***

I remember those good old days. You could buy over state lines with no problems, no questions asked. Guns were available in gun stores, clothing stores, grocery stores, bus stations, book stores, pawn shops, gas stations, home kitchen tables, and many many other stores.


13 posted on 10/22/2020 5:41:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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GCA 1968, courtesy of Ted Kennedy!!


14 posted on 10/22/2020 5:44:46 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I bought my first .22 rifle at age 13 in 1963 at Sears with my paper route money. Walked into the store with my Dad and pointed out the rifle to the clerk I wanted to buy. Walked out of the store with a new Ithica .22 cradled in my arms.


15 posted on 10/22/2020 5:48:43 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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To: Texas resident
"I bought a .22 rifle and ammo at a hardware store at age 17."

My Gpa took me to the general store and bought me my first .22 when I was 8...

When I was 10 he took me in and I got a .22/20ga over&under

When I was 12, I drove 12-miles to the same general store and bought my own Winchester 30-30 for about $45 so I could stop borrowing Gpa's for deer hunting...

During fall of 1947, my HS freshman year (a 26-mile drive), the 30-30 went to school with me everyday... Wasn't required to leave it in my Packard... Kept it in my locker...

16 posted on 10/22/2020 5:56:05 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: circlecity

I think if a FFA closes they have to send their records in to the Central Office.


17 posted on 10/22/2020 5:59:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ammodotcom

There are millions of weapons handed down thru families from Korean war, ww2, vietnam,...
No records nowhere. So much for background checks ....they must think Americans are stupid or something


18 posted on 10/22/2020 6:20:04 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (That`s 464 people per square foot! Is this corrrect?? It's NYC.)
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I was divorced in 1995, and my then about to be ex-wife had a good friend on the Madison, WI police force. The divorce proceeded, and in a matter of confusion as I moved to another part of the country, the moving company, in packing my large library managed to include an untitled leather bound book. By the time I unpacked it, it was the diary of my ex-wife, and it included comments about her asking her police officer friend to interrogate the national handgun purchase database to see if I had bought a gun. I had not, and to this date have not purchased a gun in my life. I own guns that I have inherited, but none were originally purchased by me. When I read this I was outraged and inquired of the Wisconsin Department of Justice if there was an audit trail that would reveal if an inquiry had been made. Unfortunately this is state government IT and they were just implementing the database in Wisconsin at the time and there were not records to review. Had their been records that showed an inquiry was made, I would have sued the City of Madison into oblivion.
19 posted on 10/22/2020 6:26:52 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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All these unconstitutional laws need to be thrown out and the media propagandists who push these need to be exposed for their hypocrisy: no police protection and no armed guards for any of them. Any politician who signed such a bill needs to have their taxpayer protection stripped immediately, local, state, or Federal.


20 posted on 10/22/2020 6:37:19 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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