For Those Ridiculing the NRA - Page 13

Most states require background checks on purchases made at gun shows from private sellers.

It’s a good weekend to be a seller at a gun show. Particularly for those hawking assault weapons. As the last child killed in the Dec. 14 school massacre in Newtown, Conn. was laid to rest Saturday, gun enthusiasts across the country waited in long lines and thronged gun show booths in what many openly described as a rush to buy assault weapons out of fear that they could soon be outlawed. Reuters reporters went to gun shows in Pennsylvania, Missouri, and Texas to confirm the trend that is also backed up by local news reports. There was such a rush to get inside a Texas gun show Saturday morning that the Fort Worth Star Telegram says it prompted “comparisons to eager ‘Black Friday shoppers.’”

The price of assault weapons has soared since the Newtown massacre but that hasn't dented demand in the slightest. In Allentown, Pennsylvania, a gun shop owner said she has sold more than 100 assault weapons since Dec. 14. “I’m sold out,” she told Reuters. In a gun show outside San Antonio, Texas, the most popular item was ammunition for the AR-15, the very model used by the Newtown shooter, reports the San Antonio Express-News. That was hardly an isolated instance.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports that hundreds waited in line to enter a gun show in Marietta, Georgia, where AR-15 semi-automatic rifles and its respective ammo were particularly popular purchases. “Early attendees left the show wheeling cases of ammunition,” reports the paper. A local CBS affiliate notes that the AK-47 and AR-15 are in particularly high demand at a York County, Penn. gun show this year “because many gun collectors say they’re afraid they’ll soon be outlawed.”

Reuters reports that one buyer at a Kansas City gun show paid $925 for an AR-15, when that same model would have cost around $400 a year ago. Still, it seems the buyer got a relative bargain since most of the models “were selling for $1,500 or more.”

NRA - mission accomplished.

ROOTS movie being positive!
 
            That movie caused race riots at my school.

@ ROOTS movie. Basler, it just goes to show that different people react differently to a something like a movie. Guess it's all in the mind set of the individuals.

Blitzen,     

       Most states require background checks on purchases made at gun shows from private sellers.

Not to my knowledge.

Where did you get that idea?

Only 17 states, sorry. IMO that's even more troubling to know, isn't it? Interesting that NY requires background checks on all gun sales at gun shows. That explains why so many guns used there come in from VA gun shows.Do you object to requiring private sellers to do background checks or are you in favor of that?

Presently, 17 states regulate private firearm sales at gun shows. Seven states require background checks on all gun sales at gun shows (California, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Oregon, New York, Illinois and Colorado). Four states (Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) require background checks on all handgun, but not long gun, purchasers at gun shows. Six states require individuals to obtain a permit to purchase handguns that involves a background check (Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Iowa, Nebraska). Certain counties in Florida require background checks on all private sales of handguns at gun shows. The remaining 33 states do not restrict private, intrastate sales of firearms at gun shows in any manner.

First off,
you can't regulate what people do in private, and what little control might happen at gun shows is irrelevant compared to flea markets, swap meets, anywhere people come together and individual sales done in private.
The system for these background checks is in and of itself troubling to me, and it is overwhelmed already.

As for your information about current law I will tell you this, as a dealer i received monthly notice of changes in my states laws and of federal laws, it was constantly moving and complicated so to be up to date you would have to have all the recent publications along with this months revisions to be accurate.

Now here's the kicker, although I am in Indiana, I can purchase locally Columbia's best herb from a man who is not a U.S. citizen that happens to be packing an Uzi sub-machine gun.
And for a price one could actually purchase a human being in this country.
Control that.

What I object to is more government in my life and more of my rights lost to hysteria created by that very same government.
I object to murderer's being released on the streets when their victims remain dead, I object to not putting some people to death for certain crimes but paying to keep them happy and healthy for all the years they will go on living.



Moons.

Well then let's just give everyone an Uzi and the last man standing will be declared king.

That's a silly thing to say Blitzen.

I will tell you this,
we have a history of gun control.

That's right history.
But not in the way you think.

There was a time when yes almost every man carried a gun, and rules had to be enforced about where a man could carry his gun.
Not such a bad idea.

For instance a bar is the last place one should take a handgun for obvious reasons, but you get the jist of it.
Also it was illegal to carry a weapon into a court of law.

so,
yeah there is gun control, but can it be enforced?
Not always no.

Moons.

Just wanted to mention, if it hasn't already been mentioned, Canada who does have gun control also had some horrendous school shootings. One in Quebec, 14 killed and one in Edmonton (not sure how many killed).  These are just fairly recent ones I can think of. 
For those who think gun control is going to stop these shootings, well.... you are dreaming.