Gun Laws in America, gun shows and the “gun show loophole”

Well, if you listen or watch the News in America, you’ve probably heard of the “gun show loophole.”

So, I had a license, back in the 90’s, as a gun dealer. You can get one too, all you need is money, paperwork, and background check. Easy.In order to buy guns at dealer prices, saving over $100 per gun bought, you need such a license. This is a federal license that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms requires you to have to be a gun dealer in the USA.

Now, as a licensed gun dealer, which is the only legal kind of gun dealer in the USA, you are required, by law, to do background checks. A person comes in to your store, they want a firearm, they will have paperwork to fill out, then you disappear into the back of your store, call the number you’ve been given in your state and you give the (in my state) State Police Officer, the data from the forms. The officer puts that into their computer, which is linked up with all the other states, and feds, an a background check is done on you.

Now, if you pass the background check, you get the firearm... either right then, in some states, or after a few days, the waiting period, defined by some other states.

Some states require you to have some form of weapons training before you can take possession of the firearm. Military Service counts.

Now, Gun Shows and the lie that anti gun advocates call, the “Gun Show Loophole”

Do the laws change because, you, the gun dealer, are at a gun show? Are you no longer required to do a background check?

NO!

The law does not change because a gun dealer is at a show, selling firearms there! Gun dealers are still required to do all the things they do at their gun store to maintain their license!

So, what is this “loophole” that anti gun pundits keep talking about? Well, it’s not a loophole at all, it is simply the law.

and here it is.

As a private person, if I have a firearm I wish to sell, i am not required by law to get that background check on the buyer that a dealer MUST GET. I COULD go to a gun show, with my firearm with me. I could then sell it to someone at the gun show.

no loophole.

No getting around the law. Nothing illegal. And the gun show does nothing, nothing to encourage illegal activity, exactly the opposite actually. Police are usually stationed at gun shows.

Gun laws in America

It’s too bad that the people of America never take the time to get educated on things like gun laws before they decide to vote on them.

So, let’s start at the beginning.

No one wants gun deaths in America. Not the NRA, not you, not me. Honestly.

So, let’s understand the venue first.

People are emotional and that’s normal.people ‘distort’ the truth to try to win their argument. That’s normal.

I’m going to speak only facts, facts that I will get from the federal government sites. I’ll link to them as much as possible, so you can read it for yourself and determine the truth for yourself.

Ready? Let’s start!

See the next post!

Knives in my Back

A couple of hours ago, I was stepping out of my office to do something, I forget what, and a lady I had worked for a couple of times was passing by on her way to a meeting. I was surprised to see her. She, didn't like some of my work, but then paradoxically had asked for me to work for her a couple of times more.

Anyway, she was telling me about what she is doing now, some interesting stuff about navigation, when DB walked over.

Without going into a lot of detail, DB had known me since I was hired here. My last interaction with DB prior to today was when I had applied for the Commanders Executive Fellowship Program. This is a program run out of NAVSEA where you are trained to assume an executive role, though none is guaranteed to be given you. I had been applying for it over the past several years, about 6 – 7 times, and finally my application had gotten some traction. My Department Head, had recommended me for it to the Captain, and he was writing a letter to recommend me for it to NAVSEA… that’s how everyone gets their application sent in, if you don’t have that letter, then officially you haven’t applied, so it does NOT mean you are selected, merely that your base supports your desire to be in the class.

Anyway, without a word to me, DB, who was acting Technical Director for the base at that time, had my letter ‘pulled back’ and destroyed.

So, seeing him today, bad day for Britt.

When he walked over and reached out his hand, I shook it just like a real professional would. Though I felt like looking at it and spitting on it. I did not act on that desire, I did the professional thing.

Anyway, I do not know what DB’s role is today, he had retired a few years back and taken a Directorship at one of the subcontractor companies. For all I know, he is back in government and I need to be watchful.

I am leaving here early. I don’t want to run into him again today.

Oh, his hand was cold as ice, like a dead bodies hand. Freaky.