Paperwork trails and permits, The Rant.

[Kamicosmos]

So I'm trying to buy a new SP101. Got one Saturday. Good deal, just what I've been looking for, yada yada.

I planned half a day off work today to go get the permit, then go get the gun, and then out to the range.

First, I drive up north to the county courthouse. Fill out the form, which is an abbreviated version of the federal yellow form. Pay ten bucks, have my licence run, and get the permit signed by a deputy. (Yup, I not only have to ask for permission to buy a gun, but I also have to pay for it!)
Then I drive back down south to the transfering gun store. ( I bought the gun in Kansas, live in MO, so it has to be transferred.) I get there and fill out the Federal Yellow Form, with the same questions I just answered an hour ago. Turns out, the store hasn't got the transfers yet, will be in tomorrow. So I'll go back tomorrow on lunch to get the gun. (No big deal, I'll just spend the rest of my half-day off loading up some more rounds for it.) That's when I'll get to do NICS. Just in case I rob a bank or something on the way home apparently, since I've already passed two of the same background checks...sigh.

So, my rant/question is why do I have to fill out 2 nearly identical forms and have my Driver's licence/social security number run twice? And why does trans-state line sales still need to be transfered if the dealer has to call the freaking feds to get permission to give me the gun?!?! If I'm wanted by the feds, does it really matter if I'm in MO, KS, OK, AR or where ever?

This is rhetorical, by the way. I know why I have to do all this hoop jumping, and I know that in some States this stuff is WAY worse. (And yes, I DO believe that all this info on me is being kept by the various gov't offices involved.) I'm just venting off some steam before I go lock myself away in the Reloading Room...

 

[Henry Bowman]

Why? Because you (we) put up with it.

Time to feed the hogs.

 

[pax]

You know why we have to do stuff like that?

Because we will.

Moving to L&P.

pax

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them,; and these will continue till they have resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress. -- Frederick Douglas

 

[Jim March]

The original reason for the trip to the courthouse was so that somebody could look at you and make sure you're white.

Yes, I'm serious.

Granted, they're now handling the handgun ownership permit system fairly. (Probably. At least in most cases.) But the relic remains.

North Carolina and Michigan also have "vestigal handgun ownership permit systems" left over from the days when it was a racial barrier.

 

[Standing Wolf]

The original reason for the trip to the courthouse was so that somebody could look at you and make sure you're white.

Much of what passes for leftist extremist so-called "gun control" is still racist at heart.

 

[greyhound]

The amazing thing is that with all these papers being filled out, the government still insists its not registering guns!

 

[rperry03]

I'm surprised no one from PRNJ has chimed in.

When I lived there you had to go to your local PD. If it is your first time you have to fill out a application for a ID card, fill out a application to purchase a handgun and get fingerprinted. That was the easy part.

Then wait over 2mths. Set up an appointment with the detective and pick up your permits. Then have another Nics check done at the time of purchase, boy I better wait to rob a bank after all my permits and purchase is done.

What a waste of time.

I am sure everyone has heard that before, but I had to rant and remind myself how lucky I am not to live there anymore!