We're losing this poll

[gunshow]

I know these polls are meaningless, but it's still fun to send a tiny message.

http://hamptonroads.com/polls/shoul...ave-run-background-checks-buyers?t=1204643835

 

[romma]

I know these polls are meaningless

They are only meaningless when we lose them... The media flaunts those polls.

The ones we win they bury deep...

 

[Winchester 73]

We seem to be ahead now.

55% no background checks
43% run background checks
1% don't know

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I know these polls are meaningless,

Obviously not to you since you have posted it here and that we are losing. This seems to genuinely concern you enough to spur you into action.

 

[dewage83]

why are you against back ground checks?? i dont mind, or have any thing to hide.

 

[RP88]

they need to rephrase it to say 'private dealers', not 'unlicensed dealers'. The latter give it a criminal sound if you say it wrong.

 

[ZeSpectre]

why are you against back ground checks?? i dont mind, or have any thing to hide.

1) A private sale, of private property, between two private citizens. Who cares what's being sold, if the other person is a criminal they'll get busted for crimes eventually. Why should the law abiding bear the cost (in both effort and money) of pursuing criminals?

2) Background checks are just another form of registration. So what's bad about registration? Do some historical reading about Germany in WWII (amongst others).

3) There are no provisions in the works to allow private citizens access to the NICS. Thus a potential "backdoor ban".

 

[buzz_knox]

why are you against back ground checks?? i dont mind, or have any thing to hide.

When you get denied because 1) there is a glitch in the paperwork, 2) someone with a similar name pops up on the radar, or 3) any other reason the gov't chooses, come back and talk with us.

I got denied once because I'm named after my father, who was the FFL running the check. The TICS operator thought it was my father doing the check on himself, and thought it would be funny to tell him that he'd been denied. He changed his tune quickly, but for a brief period, I was officially denied the ability to excercise my rights because some gov't flunkie was making a joke.