[Billthedrill]

The reason criminals don't get their guns from gun shows is really pretty easy to see if you've ever been to one. They're crawling with cops, especially off-duty cops. Security is often provided by them, and they're visitors as well. If you were a wanted criminal, you'd avoid those places like the plague.

[.38sw]

Also, I don't know about other states, but in California (cue to start blasting me and telling me to move) even private sales need to be processed through an FFL. Ain't nobody buying a gun at a gun show here without the background check, unless the seller is willing to take a risk and bypass it. I bought a colt Python in October from a private collector at a gun show, and there wasn't any way he was going to sell it to me without transferring ownership through an FFL. Not that I asked him to, or would have expected him to, but the conversation quickly turned to me finding an FFL to do the paperwork for us.

[Southack]

Post #7 gets my vote for quote of the day.