That depends on which state and which locale . It varies widely .
This wasn’t a private sale . The fact remains that he went through a licensed dealer (who did his job correctly). The state failed to notify NICS, where it would have then been a denial of transfer . It’s as simple as that .
That depends on which state and which locale . It varies widely .
Not sure I understand the point. My point was the unanswered question related to the gun dealer sale. I did not focus in on the “legally” word as Lurker and Spktyr did.
The other issues and they are numerous, is the states having to have a bureaucracy to take care of “sending the government data” at the states expense.
The emptying of Mental institutions in the 60’s, and the placing of people on their own recognizance who probably should not be, but under the Constitution, certainly are.
If this had been a true private sale, the private seller would not have been found, since the serial number had been filed off, but had the seller been known we would have been subjected to an endless rant of see I told you so, related to the “gun show loophole” even though the “system” “worked like it was supposed too, minus the tell tale data of mental defective.
The gun show loophole is really pointed at private sales not so much gun shows. A true misnomer.
All the rules in the world cost huge amounts of money and in the end, depend on people living by them. That may look good on the outside, but when bad people do bad things, rule are meaningless, my point is the Founding fathers had one rule related to guns. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Had even a few people been living that rule, the jerk would have been dead long before 31 others would have been killed and a host of wounded, added to them. All of the rhetoric by various politicos is nothing more than smoke and mirrors, to gain political power over others, and further denigrate the founding documents.
Anyone of us could write a book on Chuck Schumer and Carolyn McCarthy and the people dumb enough to believe their tales. Speaking of Holocaust deniers, Carolyn McCarthy has got to be one of the worst, in modern times. Had anyone on the train had a weapon, she wouldn’t be in the House of Representatives as a member of the pity party, and her loved ones might still be around.