"I bought my gun legally"

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I have heard several times from gun owner's "I bought all my guns legally." At least here in Nevada it is legal to buy guns second hand out of the news paper or the like. Comments like this has all the feeling of making someone who purchased a gun second hand some sort of criminal. Some of us don't have a lot of money and need to purchase at a reduced price, some of us are just frugal and some of us just don't want the government to know what we have. To me it's comments like this that divide the gun community.


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So if you buy them in a private sale like you said, and followed the laws, you bought all your guns legally too? Mabye I don't quite understand your post? I bought all mine legally too, two of them private sales.
 
In my case, that would be "filing a Form 4 and paying 200 dollars to the ATF." You can buy machine guns and silencers from private parties, but it unfortunately isnt legal.
 
What? Are you talking about class 3 firearms? Otherwise you can by private sale and you don't need to report anything to the ARF. So, what are you addressing?
 
Maybe I did not make my post clear, I am talking about just buying a simple handgun, shotgun or rifle out of the paper or from a yard sale. Nothing that requires a special permit.
 
Some people believe that all guns need to be "registered" due to the fact that the anti-freedom crowd has carried the day with their lies and distortions.

As a result, the sheeple believe that any "legal" gun can be traced to it's owner immediately by the powers that be. If your gun can't be tracked in this way then they believe that it is illegal. Never mind that un-papered face-to-face sales are perfectly legal in most sane states and communities.

This is why you hear so much garbage about the "gun show loophole". Some people don't believe, as we do, that firearms are just like any other tool or commodity.
 
Do you mean people taking pride in staying in line with unconstitutional law?
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Some people believe that all guns need to be "registered" due to the fact that the anti-freedom crowd has carried the day with their lies and distortions.

As a result, the sheeple believe that any "legal" gun can be traced to it's owner immediately by the powers that be. If your gun can't be tracked in this way then they believe that it is illegal. Never mind that un-papered face-to-face sales are perfectly legal in most sane states and communities.

This is why you hear so much garbage about the "gun show loophole". Some people don't believe, as we do, that firearms are just like any other tool or commodity.
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Exactly! My guns, some bought out of the paper and some bought from a gun dealer with a background check, are just as legal as someone's who went to gun dealer and had all the paperwork filled out and a background check made.
 
Sometimes my friends will ask me if I have a permit for my guns. I have to explain to them that in Texas you don't need a permit to exercise your Constitutional rights.
 
when ever some one tries to imply that im a criminal for owning guns. i always say

"im licensed by the state and have passed over 8 various background checks, its your quality of charector we should be worried about"

who cares if you bought it right from the factory, from a news paper ad, a builitin board, or the trunk off a rusted out caprice. its an object! it has no free will. the only "criminal" factor involved are people.
 
Sometimes my friends will ask me if I have a permit for my guns. I have to explain to them that in Texas you don't need a permit to exercise your Constitutional rights.
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I've been asked that too. The anti-gun crowd has convinced the masses that we need to have waiting periods and permits in order to buy a firearm... so most people assume that permits are necessary, and that you have to wait a week to take delivery of a firearm. When in reality, in most states, none of that is true.
 
A friend wanted to sell me his Winchester 7mm. I told him great let's meet at the gun shop and do a legal transfer. He didn't want to and I didn't buy the rifle.
 
Ok, you should clairify that you were in a nosy/liberal state when you said that so people don't get the idea that you are saying that any private transfer is not legal. Thanks.
 
OK,

"I am in a nosy/liberal state when you said that so people don't get the idea that you are saying that any private transfer is not legal."

In CA you are expected to DROS any and all firearms even those of private purchase. As I understane it it is the law where I live and being a lawfull person that's why I did what I did.
 
The people who annoy me most are those who go above and beyond what the law even requires. For instance, sellers on places like gunbroker, etc., requiring even, say, a muzzleloader or pre-1899 antique, to go through an FFL, knowing they don't have to. That kind of attitude sort of just annoys me. I just boycott those people and leave it at that.

I too can brag I got all my guns legally, if that's even worth bragging over (it's not in my opinion, the laws are unconstitutional), but very few of them came from a licensed dealer. I doubt anymore will come from a dealer. And no, I'm not in one of those really bad states that bans private sales, you couldn't even pay me to live in a place like MA or CA or the like.
 
None of my guns has ever commited a crime. They are not allowed to leave the house without me and thus cannot get themselves into trouble. That makes all of my guns legal. I'll register my guns the same day they start making people who mix drinks at home register their blenders.
 
AC, I noticed a guy saying on gunbroker that it's an antique (I think the shotgun in particular was an 1886 model), but he requires a drivers license stating that you're over 21. I mean...what the heck?
 
Yeah, I don't like that either, it's not required by the feds, nor my state, to be 21 to buy any antique gun or muzzleloading gun, and to give ID (something I'd not want to give a copy of to someone like that, not knowing what'll be done with it), in what is technically a private sale on what the law doesn't even define as firearms. Actually, my only ID card is expired. I ain't going along with the RealID Act, but that's another story...
 
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