[napscoordinator]

The problem is that one of the Newtown brothers whose sister died went to a gun fair and ended up buying around 30 guns of various kinds without one single back ground check. I believe that incident has done more damage to the gun shows than anything else. I think they should allow this but for those not wanting buying guns without a background check - it was ammunition (pun intended).

[MHGinTN]

Those who run the gunshows could have stopped this before it even began, by making it unallowed to make sales at gunshows which do not go through a vendor for at least a state background check. I was at the Kingsporrt show this past weekend, where CNN purchased three pistols and one AR without any ID or checks, paying cash and walking away with the weapons. If the show organizers stopped the ‘non-vendor’ no checks sales in the show and immediate area, the ‘loophole’ would have been controlled at the state level. But then the organizers would not sell as many booths ... more than half of the gun booths in the Kingsport show were not FFL dealers.

[Eagles6]

Amazing how many FReepers are falling for the agitprop. They're talking about law abiding citizens buying firearms through a private sale, legally, without a background check.

What mass shooting of the latest variety would have been prevented if the private sales had to go through NICS check?

None, ZIP, ZERO, NADA, not a single, solitary one.

This is not about preventing crime folks, it's about registration and confiscation.

[G Larry]

So....26% of people who were stupid enough to answer a phone survey about gun possession bought them through private sales?

“if you subtract people who said they got their gun as a gift, inheritance, or prize, the number dropped from 35.7 percent to 26.4 percent.”

BIG Deal!!!

[Rockhound]

“40 percent of all gun purchases at gun shows are private sales”

First of all, I can’t help but notice that the survey that this statistic comes from is over 30 years old.

Secondly, I have been a regular attendee at gun shows in Texas for over 30 years. I have never been to a single one where non-dealer, ‘Gun Show Loophole’ tables have accounted for more that a couple of percent. And most of the private sales I have seen are for Dad’s 12 gauge shotgun, and Uncle Ernie’s 30-30 lever action deer rifle, that someone inherited and has no use for. Not exactly the kind of weapomns one accumulates for a rampage.

Lets say I have collected 20 firearms over the years, and I have decided to sell them off to raise cash. How do I go about running a NICS check on someone? Will I have to get a licensed FFL dealer to run it for me? Sounds like something that will cut into my profits considerably.

And what exactly do they mean by ‘internet sales’? I know of no firearms transaction, initiated on a dealer website, that does not already require the firearm to be sent to a licensed FFL, who will run a NICS check on the purchaser. So, what is this all about???