Gun Show's To Go Bye-Bye
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divemedic
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The way this bill reads, no one can FTF a gun at a gun show unless they have an FFL, and the AG must be notified of all gun show sales within 10 days.
Link to the actual bill here
Link to the actual bill here
TheVirginian
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The guns shows are pretty pathetic nowadays. We have two companies who put on shows locally here. One generally uses one local civic center and the other, the other local civic center for their space. The smaller space actually has the best show and you can buy and sell outside of the doors. The larger one, the last that I attended, will not allow you to buy and sell on the property of the civic center, which means quite a walk if that's what you wanted to do. I don't know if it's enforced but there were a few cops standing around. This isn't the law or the civic center's rules. It is the rule of the gun show sponsors...
Further, the show was pretty lame. Even though there were a lot of tables, it was the same old crap that you can get about anywhere. I asked a few guys for cards so that I could contact them later to do business. Two of the three stated that they didn't have cards, didn't do mail order, etc. ***? I am trying to pay them and they act like it can't happen and the guys that didn't want to hand out cards weren't even selling guns! I wanted a source for holsters from one. I forgot what the other one was even for, and certainly the name of his business. I don't get it. How can they do business like that? I'm not gonna follow the gun show around like it was a Greatful Dead tour or something...
As long as the bill doesn't outlaw FTF sales altogether, it will have little impact on me. The last gun show was a waste of my time and money.
-Bill
Further, the show was pretty lame. Even though there were a lot of tables, it was the same old crap that you can get about anywhere. I asked a few guys for cards so that I could contact them later to do business. Two of the three stated that they didn't have cards, didn't do mail order, etc. ***? I am trying to pay them and they act like it can't happen and the guys that didn't want to hand out cards weren't even selling guns! I wanted a source for holsters from one. I forgot what the other one was even for, and certainly the name of his business. I don't get it. How can they do business like that? I'm not gonna follow the gun show around like it was a Greatful Dead tour or something...
As long as the bill doesn't outlaw FTF sales altogether, it will have little impact on me. The last gun show was a waste of my time and money.
-Bill
General Geoff
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Famous last words.
I would note that the bill only has 11 co-sponsors (out of, at the moment, 99 Senators. The same suspects introduce it each year, and each year it dies.
This is not to say that we should ignore the threat - far from it But at the same time we don't need to push the panic button. The bill is currently sitting in committee, with no indication it's going to move. Also before it can become law a similar bill must pass in the House.
If the Democrats who are behind it want to push it they can, but the brighter members of that party's leadership still remember what happened in 1994, and they don't want it to happen again.
This is not to say that we should ignore the threat - far from it But at the same time we don't need to push the panic button. The bill is currently sitting in committee, with no indication it's going to move. Also before it can become law a similar bill must pass in the House.
If the Democrats who are behind it want to push it they can, but the brighter members of that party's leadership still remember what happened in 1994, and they don't want it to happen again.
I have news for ya' Bill - that's exactly what they have in mind, one step at a time.
The reason they want to get rid of gun shows is because of the political action and pro-gun advocacy that goes on. They have lost too many elections to candidates who got petitions signed and collected money at gun shows.
Ben Shepherd
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Maybe, maybe not..........
It hasn't been tried in this Congress before. And should it make it out of committee, we better have our reps on speed dial.
Remember- The price of liberty is eternal vigilance!
TheVirginian
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Hi Old Fuff,
I agree that there are a few politicians who want to do anything they can to start a gun ban, even if it is in baby steps. My comment was just about the gun show idea as it is even implemented already by itself in some areas as I have evidenced. In any case, as others have mentioned here, it doesn't stop any sort of actual transaction, it just makes it less convenient. I don't support the bill, but like kilo729, I am not really concerned with it either. All we need right now is a few more panicing gun buyers out there drying-up the freakin' ammo pile...
-Bill
I agree that there are a few politicians who want to do anything they can to start a gun ban, even if it is in baby steps. My comment was just about the gun show idea as it is even implemented already by itself in some areas as I have evidenced. In any case, as others have mentioned here, it doesn't stop any sort of actual transaction, it just makes it less convenient. I don't support the bill, but like kilo729, I am not really concerned with it either. All we need right now is a few more panicing gun buyers out there drying-up the freakin' ammo pile...
-Bill
rbernie
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