[asneditor]

Just say NO to gun control.

[mbb bill]

Ever seen a terrorist at a gun show??

[LurkerNoMore!]

*ping*!

[prambo]

The "gun show loop-hole" has always been a lib-lie. Good to see it from some news meidum.

The "unlicensed sellers" are basically the guy who couldn't flog his turkey gun in last weeks swap sheet.

So, if you're a criminal, why show up and try and buy a weapon in front of hundreds or thousands of people at a gun show? Buy it from the newspaper or, just steal it from the same guy.

prambo

[Free the USA]

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[FOMTY]

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[aruanan]

Weird, isn't it, that the fear of imagined guns causes about the same cognitive deficit in Brady people as a real gun did in Jim Brady?

[backhoe]

FYI--

Communicate! Let the Sons of....

[Gordian Blade]

I went to my first gun show last Saturday, and frankly, I was disappointed. I had expected a wide-open market where I could buy anything and everything. (Not really, but the press accounts had me expecting something out of the ordinary.)

95% of the rifles and shotguns were clearly for hunting -- one or two shots. (Nothing wrong with that if you're a hunter!) There were a few SKS, one High Point semi-auto carbine (a crappy weapon IMHO), and a few other semi-auto rifles that are readily available. There was one vendor with a few Mossberg pump shotguns.

Then there was the usual assortment of handguns, nothing special. A couple of Jennings "Saturday Night Special" 9mm, which I had never seen except in pictures. In NY, including gun shows, you can't even touch a handgun without a pistol permit, much less buy one.

It was prominently posted that all buyers had to go through the usual background check. Out-of-state sellers could take orders but not deliver the goods. In short, everything was handled exactly the same as it would be in a NY State firearms shop. There was nothing there that I couldn't have gotten just as easily at a regular gun store. The only advantage to me as a buyer was having it all under one roof, with some vendors having odds and ends that I was looking for. I wasn't tempted to buy a firearm; there was nothing better for my purpose than what I already had, and nothing I couldn't just as easily get elsewhere.

So where is the press getting all this nonsense about the "gun show problem?"

[Standing Wolf]

Leftists are to the Bill of Rights
as the A.I.D.S. virus is to health!

[xm177e2]

only eight percent of state and federal prisoners used military style semi-automatic weapons. In case the Brady people are still confused, that means 92 percent used something else -- something non-military and not semi-auto.

No, it means they may have used semi-automatic weapons that were not "military style."

I have a hard time believing 92 percent of all criminals used bolt-action rifles, pump shotguns, and revolvers.

[Robert357]

For a silar article appeard a few weeks ago, I made the same set of comments.

Almost 80 percent of the guns used by these violent offenders were obtained from friends or family members

Rather than working to close the gun show loop hole, what Congress needs to do is pass legislation to protect our children! They need to make it illegal to be related to a criminal or to be the friend of a criminal. After all only when criminals don't have any friends or family, they will be denied an important source of illegal firearms! Let's all ask Congress to protect our children by making it a crime to be related to a criminal or to be the friend of a criminal! (/sarcasm)

[MissTargets]

In 1991, the President was George Bush was did not resist gun control

I am sorry, but, I do not understand this?

[samtheman]

Gun Show Statistics