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This guy works for the NRA -

cleaner464 wrote:This guy works for the NRA -

I once bought a gun at a gun show and had to go through a background check. I'm not certain but I think the only people who don't have to do background checks are private sales that take place at gun shows. So, if you want to get rid of a gun to get some cash, you can sell it w/o doing a background check. I think all vendor sales require background checks. At least that was true at the show that I went to.

FWIW at least one of last weeks terrorists would have passed any background check.

More knowledgeable gun types can correct me on this.

DrDonkeyLove wrote:

cleaner464 wrote:This guy works for the NRA -

I once bought a gun at a gun show and had to go through a background check. I'm not certain but I think the only people who don't have to do background checks are private sales that take place at gun shows. So, if you want to get rid of a gun to get some cash, you can sell it w/o doing a background check. I think all vendor sales require background checks. At least that was true at the show that I went to.

FWIW at least one of last weeks terrorists would have passed any background check.

More knowledgeable gun types can correct me on this.

In Michigan to buy a gun you first have to go to the police dept. to get a permit to purchase. A background check is done at that time. The permit is good for 10 days. Then you go to the vendor, gun show or not, buy the gun, and the vendor signs your permit with date of sale, etc. Then you take the gun, go back to the police, it is inspected, recorded and sent to the State Police and recorded in the data base.
It's been that way since Adam and Eve. I bought a pistol here back in 1958 and was the same procedure. All my guns are legally registered.
I don't get what the hullabaloo is all about.

Dr. Donk, it varies from state-to-state, and even gun show to gun show. The gun show closest to me requires a background check to be a member, and only members are allowed to sell/trade guns at the show. (But non-members probably close deals offsite.)

Unless a state imposes additional restrictions, the laws regulating sales at gun shows are exactly the same as laws regulating sales everywhere else.

There is no "gun show loophole".

cleaner464 wrote:This guy works for the NRA -

LOL. At my local gun show, I not only got a "fully automatic" assault rifle, I also picked up an M1 Abrams tank and a Harrier jump jet.

You & your Raghead Bunkmate are clueless.