Great!
I'll wear my CELEBRATE DIVERSITY shirt that day! 
Posted on 08/15/2007 11:29:17 AM PDT by neverdem
Lefties will continue to try to point out “loopholes” as long as private citizens own firearms. Same story, different day.
So he broke the law. Doesn't mean that there ISN'T a law.
Already? Well I was wondering what it would take to dislodge the Dems from power; gun control it is.
IMHO, I disagree. The neoCOMs took the issue off the table by running many RKBA candidates in 2006. They took back control of Congress. Now they can't be anything but themselves, a collection of multicultural special interests, in denial of how they won in 2006. IMHO, they're walking into an ambush of their own making. Since 1994, this has been a loosing issue for the neoCOMs.
If you buy from a private individual why would there be more to it?
No different than going to one of the many firearm related websites that offer a “For Sale” section, finding a gun you want and then go meet that person to seal the deal.
By the way, if you are a felon it is STILL illegal for you to buy a gun in a private sale.
The proposed law wants to stop ALL private sales at gun shows. Which would only be a precursor to stopping ALL private sales, period.
Did King own a gun?Yes. In his writings and in interviews, King, the object of many death threats, acknowledged once owning a gun in Montgomery, Ala., and seeking a license to carry in a gun in his car. In The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., he wrote that the issue of armed protection arose after a bombing at his home. He ultimately rejected armed defense, however, because he decided that it was inconsistent with his message.
It was his right to decide he didn't want or need a gun to protect himself. I wonder, though, if he would have agreed with Jesse Jackson that citizens should be deprived of the right to make that choice for themselves. The fact that King chose to get rid of his gun does not in any way support the idea that other citizens should be forced to live by that choice themselves.
That's where I put mine when I'm not using it to protect my home from intruders.
It's really a stupid issue. Obviously if I use my gun to blow away some drug crazed invader, the gun was in my care and control, so this "law" wouldn't be of much use against a gun owner.
The only time it could be used is if little Johnny brings his friends home after school while daddy is at work and finds daddy's loaded gun in the drawer and start playing with it.
Obviously, I'm not completely against "care and control" issues. The reason is because these type of "accidents" give gun grabbers the issues they need to raise valid concerns, which are then used as vehicles to add additional "pork" on. Rather than it be a a legislated law, however, it should be every gun owners common sense practice to store their guns not in immediate use safely.
Recall the excessively vehement gun control talk coming from the Left in 1994 as they anticipated their overwhelming victory in national elections, and the subsequent Right victory attributed to Newt but really due to gun grabbers.
“Shall not be infringed.”
EXACTLY! The “right to bear arms” is NOT a right granted by the constitution. It is NOT a right granted by any government.
It IS a GOD given right we are born with and Article 2 in the bill of rights ONLY CONFIRMS the inherent right to “bear arms”.
While I like the freedom of the completely private sale, you do have a little "caveat emptor" issue. You don't know for certain whether the seller is the legal owner of the firearm or fencing stolen property. You also don't know if that firearm has been used in the commission of a crime prior to your purchase. Absent any paperwork to prove the date on which you became the owner, you might well become a suspect in possession of a firearm used in a criminal act.
Yeah, but the numbnut left out all the vendors and customers who are packing. As if the cops are the potential perpetrator's biggest worry at a gunshow!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Congress is on track to possibly pass the first federal gun control legislation since 1994.”
Whenever the Republicans get into trouble, the Democrats always come along to bail them out.
FFL holders are subject of Federal Law.
In North Dakota and other states as well, the display of your CWP avoids waiting periods as well.
Nope...he didn't break the law...not in this state.
Same in CT.
Great!
I'll wear my CELEBRATE DIVERSITY shirt that day!
I suppose that's a chance one takes in this kind of transaction, although the same could be said about purchasing a firearm from any private citizen. This guy had about 30-rifles and hand guns on his table and went into a long description of this particular XD and how he had upgraded it to trinitron night sights, (which I really like). I guess I made the decision he was legit and I trusted him. He told me he would give me a bill of sale if I really wanted one, but hardly anyone asked for one. Next time, I'll probably insist on one.
Interestingly, I'm not a citizen of the state where I bought the pistol...was just visiting, but that didn't seem to bother anyone.
I guess the point is, while I don't agree with any restrictions concerning the sale of ANY legal product, I can see were the gun show critics get their ammunition, so to speak.
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