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Unlicensed reporters fret over gun show loophole

Ravenwood - 01/31/05 07:15 AM

Thankfully the Virginia Senate defeated the gun show killer bill last week. But the usual suspects in the media are still ratcheting up the rhetoric.

Gun buyers, including criminals, can continue to avoid background checks by doing business with unlicensed dealers at Virginia gun shows.

The Senate voted 20-17 yesterday to kill Sen. Henry L. Marsh III's bill requiring criminal-background checks on all purchasers at gun shows. State law requires federally licensed dealers to conduct the checks at gun shows, but it exempts unlicensed vendors, such as gun collectors and private sellers.

So if you sell your used car to your neighbor, you must be an unlicensed used car dealer.

Mr. Marsh, Richmond Democrat, said Virginia is the only state along the coast from North Carolina to the Canadian border that has not closed "the gun-show loophole."

That's because we border the North East, which includes gun control paradises such as Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts.

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"Mr. Marsh, Richmond Democrat, said Virginia is the only state along the coast from North Carolina to the Canadian border that has not closed "the gun-show loophole."
How do you know if a GFW is lying? Their lips are moving.
New Hampshire, which is between North Carolina and the Canadian border and along the coast, respects private sales of guns at gun shows and has no intention of changing that policy.
I'm not sure, but I doubt Maine has any restrictions of private transactions at gun shows as well

Posted by: Yosemite Sam at January 31, 2005 6:36 AM

Good catch.

Posted by: Ravenwood at January 31, 2005 7:30 AM

Is NC included in that? Because every time I go to the gun show here, I see folks walking around with rifles with "for sale" signs stuck in the muzzle. Of course, they might be dealers, but I kind of doubt it.

Posted by: Thibodeaux at January 31, 2005 1:59 PM

"Unlicensed reporters fret over gun show loophole"

It's amazing how people in the information business can be so clueless....that or intentionally obtuse.

Posted by: Robert Garrard at January 31, 2005 7:37 PM