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House Democrats Plan Push to Criminalize Private Gun Sales
breitbart.com ^ | 12/5/2018 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 12/05/2018 10:42:59 AM PST by rktman

House Democrats plan to introduce legislation criminalizing private gun sales once the new Congress is in session.

Mother Jones reports that Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) met with gun control groups that included the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety, the Center for American Progress, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Gabby Giffords’ group. He asked them what they wanted, and a bill to criminalize private gun sales was on their wish list.

So Thompson will sponsor legislation requiring a background check before someone may buy a gun from his neighbor, a co-worker to get a background check before buying a gun from a co-worker, and so forth. The bill will go so far as to require a son to get a background check before a father can give him a gun as a gift.

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To: SoCal Pubbie

Ivory for sure, although there may be grandfathered in pieces.


41 posted on 12/05/2018 12:37:58 PM PST by Monty22002
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To: Red Badger
And they will get this past the Senate how?..............
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In 6 years, maybe less.

42 posted on 12/05/2018 12:40:48 PM PST by sailor76 (Trump is our last hope!)
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To: rktman

Selling a stolen handgun to a thug on the street wasn’t already illegal?


43 posted on 12/05/2018 12:43:14 PM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Well, if you aren't Native American (Asian) don't have eagle feathers. 👹
44 posted on 12/05/2018 12:44:08 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: Monty22002

That’s what I’m getting at. Generally if you can’t sell something you can’t buy it, or own it, either. Certain firearms and animal items may be grandfathered but it can’t be many. It seems so weird to say you can buy somerhing, you can own something, but you can’t sell it.


45 posted on 12/05/2018 12:44:32 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: rktman; PROCON

Then now is the time to stock up on your guns and ammo.


46 posted on 12/05/2018 12:45:16 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
Some now prohibited fret board wood on guitars.🎸
47 posted on 12/05/2018 12:46:09 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: rktman

The real purpose of background checks is registration.

If the government’s database only records the original purchaser, then over time, as the original purchasers sell/give the guns to their friends and relatives, and eventually die, the ability of government to discover who possesses the older guns gets less over time.

If each transfer requires a check, and each check leaves a permanent record, then they have a better ability to round up and confiscate.


48 posted on 12/05/2018 12:46:36 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: rktman

I’m talking about something you can buy and posses, but not sell. Your example doesn’t fit. Plenty of things are banned outright.


49 posted on 12/05/2018 12:47:14 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: Monty22002

Perhaps booze, and on some scale food, not that I think about it.


50 posted on 12/05/2018 12:48:49 PM PST by SoCal Pubbie
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To: PapaBear3625

I wouldn’t know anything about private firearms sales between consenting adults..


51 posted on 12/05/2018 12:49:57 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Prescription meds?

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52 posted on 12/05/2018 12:50:32 PM PST by Mears
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To: bigbob

There is planning and then there is doing.


53 posted on 12/05/2018 12:54:56 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight yourr way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: rktman

...and not one life in Chicago, or elsewhere, would be saved.


54 posted on 12/05/2018 12:59:08 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: rktman

With Christmas coming up, this may be a good time for FReepers to consider gifting firearms to their offspring and nieces and nephews. Check local laws on private transfers, then write, date, and sign something which transfers ownership to the young one.

You don’t necessarily need to physically transfer possession yet, just effective ownership. It is an especially good idea to legally transfer ownership of at least part of your collection of boat anchors if you’re getting too old to really enjoy them all anyway.

It’s good if none of your firearms have to be recorded in probate when you pass on.


55 posted on 12/05/2018 12:59:25 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

Wasn’t there something about putting them in a trust.


56 posted on 12/05/2018 1:02:03 PM PST by rktman ( #My2nd! Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH)
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To: taxcontrol

Stock up on 80% lowers. Those don’t require any FFL middleman doing a background check.


57 posted on 12/05/2018 1:02:32 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: rktman

Gun trusts are mainly for National Firearms Act (full auto) firearms.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/using-gun-trust-pass-firearms.html

It has the disadvantage that the serial number of the gun is recorded in public trust documents. You want your guns to be passed on to young people who will legally have ownership of them, but with that ownership not being recorded in any government database.


58 posted on 12/05/2018 1:07:15 PM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: rktman; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; umgud; ...

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59 posted on 12/05/2018 1:10:06 PM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: Red Badger
And they will get this past the Senate how?.................

I'm sure the appropriate mass shooter event can be scheduled for whenever the vote comes up.

60 posted on 12/05/2018 1:20:25 PM PST by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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