Reply #72: what the fuck?

[iverglas]

The licensing isn't to ensure safety. The goal is to end such sales.

Er, yes.

The goal is to end sales TO PEOPLE WHO ARE INELIGIBLE TO POSSESS FIREARMS.

Duh. Is that not the goal of the NICS system?

A licensing system is simply a far, far better way of achieving the goal of keeping firearms out of the hands of people where it is contrary to the public interest for them to have firearms.

Are you unable to read, or just unable ... or unwilling ... to admit what you read?

I said this:

Let me know when you hear of anybody committing a crime with a firearm they bought at a gun show in Canada, or from a licensed gun dealer (whether personally or via a straw purchaser).

You won't find them, because it's virtually impossible to acquire firearms that way in Canada because of licensing.

If you don't see that what I said meant it's virtually impossible FOR AN INELIGIBLE PERSON to aquire firearms that way, then you must have imagined some bizarre meaning for yourself.

If it were virtually impossible for ANYBODY to acquire a firearm that way, well, we wouldn't be talking about Canada.

There are gun shows in Canada, and there are gun dealers, and there are private sales of firearms. Loads and loads of all of them. There is no "prohibition" on any of those forms of firearm transfers.

Here's a directory of gun shows for you; take your time:
http://www.firearmscanada.com/gun_shows.html
Down at the bottom you will find a link to a directory of gun dealers, and a link to firearms classified ads (that is currently under renovation).

Or do you actually not know the first fucking thing about Canada at all, and you were just regurgitating memes from right-wing gun militant internet sites ... or this forum ... ?

I apologise if I was unclear.

Now you apologise for spewing false right-wing memes, 'k?