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need? what does need have to do with it? and what do you mean by real?
some of those people were people who wanted to be able to purchase firearms and have them shipped directly to their homes, not pay an extra $10-$50 to have it delivered to a dealer.
many of them ran their firearms business as a home based business. alot of them got jacked in various ways for it, so they dropped their license. others decided that the intrusion, and all the hoops they had to jump thru weren't worth it.
btw. do you NEED a drivers license? why don't you take a cab or a bus or walk or ride a bike? are you a real driver? do you drive a truck or a bus?

Like I said, they were not actual dealers selling to people. The claim the poster is trying to make is that 90% of dealers have been put "out of business" by the BATF, when most of these people were never running a business to begin with. And he's tring to tie it to rises in gun prices. That's silly, because you or I could not have purchased from one of these people, who were not running an actual business, to begin with. Its just a faulty claim.

Have some small, real "mom & pop" dealers been run out of business due to BATF regulations? No doubt. But its ridiculous to claim that 90% of dealers who opperated 15 years ago are now out of business. Its just not true, just like 5,000 "children" a year are not "killed by guns"(or whatever the number of the day is over at Brady HQ).