{"id":36956,"date":"2013-08-05T09:29:12","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36956"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:29:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:29:12","slug":"gun-laws-for-low-information-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36956","title":{"rendered":"Gun laws for low-information voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/a> sounds an alarm from The Third Way, a leftist think tank, that the internet is facilitating gun sales and that it’s the most used medium for people who want to avoid background checks.<\/p>\n

At any given time, more than 15,000 guns were for sale in those states, according to the study, and more than 5,000 of them were semi-automatic weapons. Nearly 2,000 ads were from prospective buyers asking to buy specifically from private sellers, where no background checks are required.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this point, this is the biggest loophole in the background check system,\u201d said Lanae Erickson Hatalsky, director of social policy and politics at Third Way.<\/p>\n

Background checks \u2014 designed to keep guns out of the hands of convicted felons, domestic violence perpetrators or the severely mentally ill \u2014 are mandatory for gun sales at retail stores, but not at gun shows or for private sales, such as between neighbors and family members.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What this breathless reporting doesn’t mention is that these guns are being bought and sold within the same State. It’s like buying from your neighbor doesn’t require background checks because it’s private sale within the frontiers of a single state.<\/p>\n

Federal laws already mandate that interstate sales be between Federal Firearms licensed dealers. If I was selling a gun across state lines to Maryland, ten miles from my house, I’d have to take a firearm to a local dealer and pay him to ship it to a dealer near the buyer, where the buyer would have to go through background checks. So, it’s already illegal to sell a gun that will end up across state lines without a background check. <\/p>\n

But, by all means let’s keep the public ignorant about the laws that are already in place so we can pass even more laws. By the way, I’ve bought two guns on the internet and had to go through background checks. I’ve also bought two guns at gun shows in recent years and went through background checks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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