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  • McCain-Reed Gun Show Bill: All Trick, No Treat

    01/19/2004 1:00:10 PM PST · by Joe Brower · 40 replies · 221+ views
    NRA-ILA website ^ | 11/4/2003 | unknown
    McCain-Reed Gun Show Bill: All Trick, No Treat NRA-ILA website11/4/2003 Introduced, appropriately enough, on Halloween, the McCain-Reed-DeWine-Lieberman gun show bill--S. 1807--masquerades as reform but imposes bureaucratic restrictions aimed at eliminating gun shows. It is based on the McCain-Lieberman bill (S. 890) from the 107th Congress, and like its parent, fails to address gun owners` most significant concerns and fails to fix real problems of the national instant check system. S. 1807 is not about closing a "gun show loophole"--there is no "gun show loophole." Existing laws apply at gun shows just the same as any other place guns are sold....