Is that for long guns or handguns, or both?
In CT. if you want to buy a handgun at a show, it's just as if you were in the gun store. Full background check, must have a CCW, etc.
b.s. Here is Ga. they run background checks in gun shows.
Why not do background checks on workers to send the illegals packing for home!
Of course that dolt Kaine never brings up this fact that his proposed restrictions would not have prevented Cho from killing.
What may have prevented Cho from killing is if someone on campus, other than himself, was armed. Of course, Kaine won't go there.
Making it harder for innocent civilians to own firearms does not PROTECT innocent civilians from felonious actions.
Felons will get their hands on weapons no matter what Governors like this idiot try and pass into law. This isn't about "criminal control", it's just plain old CONTROL he is after.
This guy is either Stupid, Insane, or just plain Evil.
I'd rather arm felons than disarm non felons.
Besides, I assume that felons that want guns already have them.
But Guv, I'd say to you that you either want maximum freedom for your subjects or you don't.
"You either want felons to have guns or you don't,"
And I imagine in five or less years we will see the same quote used to "close the private sale loophole"
More media “code” words. “Unlicensed Dealer” means an individual. So you can’t sell your property if it is a firearm unless it is through an “approved” network and sanctioned by the government.
The heck with that. If a citizen can’t be trusted with a firearm, they shouldn’t be loose.
NICS can’t prove you are not whom you tell it you are:
A. Undercover Agents Were Successful in All States Attempted
The GAO undercover agents were successful in purchasing firearms with false identifications from licensed dealers in all five states they attempted: Virginia, West Virginia,
Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona. Their success rate was 100%. In no instance did NICS background checks detect that the GAO agents were using false identifications, and in no
instance did gun dealers refrain from selling weapons to the agents. The GAO report is attached
as Exhibit 1 to this report.5
http://oversight.house.gov/documents/20040608092918-29119.pdf
What is it Red Forman used to say...? Dumb-a55!
Virginia does not place restrictions on sales of firearms between individuals. A gunshow is simply a venue, and a guy trying to sell off last season’s Marlin 30-30 is not a loophole, but a citizen looking to modify his collection.
ruefully
I hope the people of Virginia are enjoying this POS. Yesterday he had another liberal proclamation that made Fox. To think that they are going to elect a solid dim government in ‘08 is sickening.
LLS
The Virginia Tech teachers think they should be allowed to carry their weapons on campus, to stop nuts like Chou.
The constitution is on their side. Right to Keep and BEAR arms.
But still the public entity prohibits them from protecting themselves.
Under current law, background checks on buyers are not required by unlicensed dealers who privately sell and trade firearms at the shows.
That’s an oxymoron. All dealers are licensed. People who are unlicensed aren’t dealers.
The correct phase is “(unlicensed, if you must) private sellers.”
There’s no such thing as an unlicenced dealer. How did this foll become Gov? Are most of the folks in VA dumber than he is?
Never trust a halfa== viginia cop.
You want people who are mentally adjudicated to be dangerous to be free to walk on the streets or you don't. If you don't want them to, then you ought to close that parole loophole.
Yeah, but a background check will no longer indicate whether someone has actually been convicted of anything by due process of law, will it? Won't it also now flag lots of other people who have not received due process?