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What waiting period? It took me approximately 15 minutes to buy my last gun retail.
A seller at a gun show still follows the same federal and state laws. What reason do you provide for outlawing them?
How many private sellers, at gun shows, are required to conduct a background check?
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Known as the "gun show loophole," most states do not require background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows from private individuals -- federal law only requires licensed dealers to conduct checks.
Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, federal law clearly defined private sellers as anyone who sold no more than four firearms per year. But the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act lifted that restriction and loosely defined private sellers as people who do not rely on gun sales as the principal way of obtaining their livelihood.
Out of all the tons of cocaine that happen each week, how much of that cocaine started off as a legal purchase?
Make all guns illegal like cocaine and they'll still be sold illegally just like cocaine.
Damn near 100% of guns used in crimes started as a legal purchase. If you don't also tackle the flow of legal guns to the black market, then you're only doing half the job.
Unless I'm missing something about drug laws, I'm guessing close to 0% of cocaine starts off as a legal purchases.
Damn near 100% of guns used in crimes started as a legal purchase. If you don't also tackle the flow of legal guns to the black market, then you're only doing half the job.
Unless I'm missing something about drug laws, I'm guessing close to 0% of cocaine starts off as a legal purchases.
Just as prohibition didn't get rid of alcohol, banning guns won't get rid of illegally sold guns.
You'll immediately go from legal guns to illegal guns just as they went from legal booze to illegal booze.
Only those who choose to obey the laws will not have guns. People who obey laws aren't the people to worry about.
As you seem to understand, laws banning cocaine have not stopped cocaine.
Just as prohibition didn't get rid of alcohol, banning guns won't get rid of illegally sold guns.
You'll immediately go from legal guns to illegal guns just as they went from legal booze to illegal booze.
Only those who choose to obey the laws will not have guns. People who obey laws aren't the people to worry about.
As you seem to understand, laws banning cocaine have not stopped cocaine.
Every law could be refuted with the lawbreaker’s paradox, and societies would swiftly descend into anarchy. Laws against rape, murder, drugs, and theft, for example, are rarely followed by rapists, murderers, drug addicts, and thieves, but because such people exist in society is the reason behind such regulations in the first place. Same goes for laws regulating guns.
We ban illegal drugs in our laws. Drugs alone don't hurt anyone until they are used by a person. Same applies to guns.
Let's see, I lock my gun in a safe. When someone breaks into my home, I say wait a minute, I need to get my gun unlocked so I can fight back. Yep, that will work all right.
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