Gun Shows

[TMan]

Am I missing something here?

If on Friday I go into a gun store to purchase a gun, they have to do a background check.

However, if I wait until Saturday and go to a gun show, I can buy the same gun without a background check?

Is this right or am I wrong about it?

If I'm right, isn't this just plain stupid?

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; In many states, Gun Shows is like selling a gun to your brother which don't require a background check. It's conducted like a private sale.

....Most Dealers that has a FFL, they have to abide by the Laws, but, at Guns Show, many that sell firearms are not license dealers.

....Some of our Gun Shows has in house assistance background checks, for private sales.

.....I'm a Law Abiding Citizen, just like you and others on our forum......All of us knows the difference between right & wrong and how these firearms end up in the wrong hands.

....Let me introduced you to our county Chief of Police, and his gun giveaway day :

"Police arrest three, remind others to be safe"

www.news-daily.com/news/2012/dec/04/police-arrest-three-remind-others-be-safe/?c=83620

Chief Greg Porter reminded everyone to be alert and observant during this Christmas season to avoid becoming a victim of a crime.

"Clayton County police chief also theft victim"

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Thieves stole Clayton County Police Chief Greg Porter's gun, badge and other items from his personal vehicle about seven weeks ago, the chief confirmed Tuesday night.

www.news-daily.com/news/2011/may/10/clayton-county-police-chief-also-theft-victim/

[MLB]

I don't mind the background check idea. It would be a real PITA if you had to do a background check for a private sale though.

["DoubleAction"]

Dec 21, 2012 1:41:34 GMT -5 MLB said:

I don't mind the background check idea. It would be a real PITA if you had to do a background check for a private sale though.

.....TMan; In Georgia, having a State Issued Carry Permit don't allow for these Federal background checks when purchasing a firearm. Georgia approved this, right after Clinton signed this Brady Bill.

.....The whole purpose of The Brady Campaign was to have The Brady Passed, but, since the Bill was signed, they have tried their utmost to abolished our lawful rights, under The Second Amendment. These lopsided anti-self defense organizations will never be satisfied.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA V. HELLER

Amici Briefs

BRIEF FOR BRADY CENTER

#5
]4. The phrase “keep and bear Arms” refers to
possession and use of weapons for military
purposes
While the lower court thought it self-evident that
the word “keep” injects a private, non-militia purpose
into the Amendment, there is no historical or textual
basis to believe that while the right to “bear Arms” is
military, the right to “keep and bear Arms” is not.
There are, of course, multiple contexts in which “keep”
has an “obvious individual and private meaning[].” Pet.
App. 27a. It does not, however, have that meaning as
part of the phrase “keep and bear Arms” in a constitutional
provision referencing the importance of a “well
regulated Militia.”

supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/07-290/07-290.mer.ami.pet.brady.pdf

BRIEF FOR The NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund

CONCLUSION This Court, all but two of the federal Courts of Appeals, and the various State appellate courts have consistently held that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right to “keep and bear Arms” for purely private purposes. Prior to the decision below, no federal court had ever found a statute facially invalid under the Second Amendment without subsequently being reversed. While evolution in the understanding of a Constitutional provision is sometimes warranted, nothing has changed in regard to the Second Amendment that would justify this Court in radically departing from its jurisprudence here; if anything, the lethal nature of the modern handgun and the epidemic of handgun violence and its attendant effects on the African-American community in this country should cast doubt on the radical reinterpretation of the Second Amendment proffered by the D.C. Circuit. Respectfully Submitted, THEODORE M. SHAW, DIRECTOR COUNSEL JACQUELINE A. BERRIEN *VICTOR A. BOLDEN DEBO P. ADEGBILE MARC K. BATTLE NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC. 99 Hudson Street, Suite 1600 New York, NY 10013 [phone] January 11, 2008 MICHAEL B. DE LEEUW DARCY M. GODDARD DALE E. HO FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP One New York Plaza New York, New York 10004 [phone] *Counsel of Record

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supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/07-290/07-290.mer.ami.pet.naacp.pdf

[blueglass]

WE have the background checks here also but only for getting your 1st ATT which is Authorization to Transport. You cannot even buy a firearm until you pass the Mounties questionaire on this one and then just buy away all you want or can afford.

[5ontarget]

The gunshows here will rent tables to FFL holders and non liscense holders (private sales, and the knife, cammo, ultra cheapo holster and bag dealers)
In the state of Ohio, the FFL dealers all do the NICS check, but a private seller does not have to. SO, I could take some guns to a show, set up a table and put a "private sale" sign on the table and sell to anybody I'd like.
Also there are private individuals that will carry around a gun or two with a sign affixed somewhere to them or the gun with a price. No background check required/performed.