Reply #104: Why do you think that private sales are a problem? [View All]

Private sales of gun at gunshows, via newspaper ads and from friend to friend. I've even seen ads by people on gun forums trying to sell their guns.

Why is this objectionable? People privately sell all manner of items. And in those ads on gun forums, the laws still must be obeyed with the parties to the transaction who live in different states required to have the seller only able to ship to a federally licenced dealer who requires that the buyer fill out a Form 4473, and subject to an NICS background check. Often it's the best way to locate a firearm that may no longer be in production, or at least offered for sale in the US, and often at a much more reasonable price than is available at a store-front operation. I've purchase several firearms in this manner...a Sig P228 two-tone, a Sig P225 Electroless Nickel, & Sig P245 Ilaflon finish pistol, a Savage Model 99 in .300 Savage, & 1941 Winchester Model 12 Skeet-grade.

So long as the law is followed (and it was scrupulously followed in all instances), why should you be unduly frightened?

As for gun laws I approve of,
- I support the NFA, which restricts firearms to those that one would normally associate with an infantryman in the US armed forces.
- I support restricting the sale of firearms to those who have been convicted of a felony, those who have been adjudicated mentally unfit, and those who's actions are constrained by a protective order (provided that a means exists for vacating all of these restrictions once the prohibitive issue has been alleviated.)
- I support the instant criminal background check system as it currently stands.
- I support state-by-state issuance of concealed carry permits.
- I support the removal of restrictions of legal concealed carry on university campus
- I support state-to-state reciprocity agreements which allow CCW holders to legally carry in other states (assuming that they do so legally in whatever state they are in...).
- I support Castle Doctrine laws, as well as "Stand Your Ground" legislation.

Off the top of my head, that pretty well covers it...