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Owners should be taxed for the possession of guns. These taxes should be used to cover the medical and rehabilitation costs of gun victims.
No they shouldn't since it's mostly criminals who didn't buy their guns legally doing the shooting.
So you support such measures as closing the Gun Show Loophole to prevent guns from getting into the hands of these criminals? What's your suggest for the leading source of illegally diverted guns, straw purchasers?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_shows_in_the_United_States
...In 2000, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) published the "Following the Gun" report.[18] The ATF analyzed more than 1,530 trafficking investigations over a two-and-a-half-year period and found gun shows to be the second leading source of illegally diverted guns in the nation. "Straw purchasing was the most common channel in trafficking investigations."[19] These investigations involved a total of 84,128 firearms that had been diverted from legal to illegal commerce. All told, the report identified more than 26,000 firearms that had been illegally trafficked through gun shows in 212 separate investigations. The report stated that: "A prior review of ATF gun show investigations shows that prohibited persons, such as convicted felons and juveniles, do personally buy firearms at gun shows and gun shows are sources of firearms that are trafficked to such prohibited persons. The gun show review found that firearms were diverted at and through gun shows by straw purchasers, unregulated private sellers, and licensed dealers. Felons were associated with selling or purchasing firearms in 46 percent of the gun show investigations. Firearms that were illegally diverted at or through gun shows were recovered in subsequent crimes, including homicide and robbery, in more than a third of the gun show investigations."...
Are you back to that sad nonsense again? There is no such thing as the "Gun Show Loophole". It's a fiction perpetuated by the gun control lobby.
Yes, it makes it easier to meet and conduct a sale at a show. Many people walk around with rifles with For Sale signs on the muzzle. If you see one you like, you can buy it. It doesn't go through a background check, because Federal law doesn't require it. But you could do the same through an ad in the paper, on Craig's List, a bulletin board at the store, or any other place where one person is looking to sell and another is looking to buy. There's nothing special about a sale being conducted at a show, other then convenience.
I don't known where the author of that wikipedia article got his facts, but they aren't current. Since at least 2007 all handgun sales must go through an FFL dealer and require a background check. This doesn't vary by state, it's a Federal law. I believe it goes back considerably further then that, to a law passed in '87-88, but I'm not positive.
Now there's nothing stopping someone from selling a gun illegally, other then the risk of prison of course. So yes, a felon could get a gun through a straw buyer, but that's already illegal. So how would more legislation help? Doing a straw purchase is already a mandatory 10 year prison sentence. If you want to make the sentence longer, I'm all for it.
By the way, if someone sees you making an illegal sale at a show, you will be detained and the police called. Around here at least.
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