Reply #9: The gun show loop hole does not exist...let me 'splain..

[virginia mountainman]

Thank you for being willing to think this thru and learn the truth of the matter, many are not willing too.


The loop hoe does NOT, exist, and here is how I can say that:

Does, State or Federal gun laws STOP at gun show grounds?? Are gun shows somehow a special place where gun laws do not apply???

What you have at gun shows, is groups of LICENSED gun dealers, selling their wares, OUTSIDE of their brick and mortar stores, the paperwork is still their, the background checks are still their, the only thing that has changed is a group of gun dealers getting together, to buy and sell, a legal product.

You may say, what about UNLICENSED gun dealers...I say, WHERE?! If they are unlicensed, they are committing major violations of state and federal law. Now, you may have individuals, selling a rifle, shotgun, and yes even a hand gun, outside the sale, in the parking lot. BUT THOSE ARE NOT GUN DEALERS...they are private individuals, making a private sale..In Virginia, that is okay, as long as you are reasonably certain that the person is NOT a felon, nor a minor..

THAT, is what the whiners about the so called gun show loophole is complaining about but, the problem with closing the "so called" loophole is what it will do to collectors, like me (I own several military rifles, I collect them for their HISTORICAL value, most are old WW1 and WW2 era rifles) but the way most of the "gun show loophole" closing laws are written, it would make it a felony for me to sell, loan, or even SHOW my historically significant collection, due to suddenly becoming a "gun show" in my home

The Loophole is really the ability to buy, sell, or even pass down from generation to generation guns as an individual. Some of the proposed laws would even interfere with me passing on my firearms to my children. THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE.

THE ONLY WAY TO CLOSE IT, is to register all guns, and pass a pile of onerous laws...

Gun control, is more about control, than it is about guns.