{"id":79281,"date":"2018-05-07T09:12:41","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79281"},"modified":"2018-05-07T09:12:41","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:12:41","slug":"dan-helmer-gun-show-loophole-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79281","title":{"rendered":"Dan Helmer; gun show loophole liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zP1EUb30FMo\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fellow running for the 10th Congressional District of Virginia by the name of Dan Helmer. He claims to be a veteran and he&#8217;s running on a gun control platform. He made the above video in which he purchases an AR-style rifle at a gun show in the district. He says, &#8220;Last week, I went to a gun show to find out how easy it is to buy an assault rifle. What I found was terrifying &#8211; it took less time to buy a weapon of war than a cup of coffee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What he did was buy an AR-style rifle from a private seller &#8211; the guy who sold it to Helmer is a veteran and Helmer showed his own military ID to the guy. The seller thought that he was doing a fellow veteran a favor, not knowing that Helmer was looking to screw someone over. The seller even asked Helmer if he is a felon before he sold the gun to him.<\/p>\n<p>Helmer claims that it took less time to buy the rifle than it would take him to buy a cup of coffee. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VCDL.ORG\/posts\/2140826352601689\">Virginia Citizens Defense League, Inc.<\/a> talked to the seller, a collector, and Helmer was not truthful about the time constraints of the purchase;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The story says 10 minutes to purchase, while the seller says it was almost an hour! During the first 20 minutes Dan Helmer showed the seller his military ID and they spoke about their military experiences. Mr. Helmer claimed to be doing reserve duty at the Pentagon. The seller used this time to also make sure that Mr. Helmer was telling the truth and didn&#8217;t have any obvious mental problems. Prices were negotiated. Mr. Helmer left for about 20 minutes and then came back, saying his wife had given him permission for the purchase. The purchase was then completed in the final 20 minutes. The seller asked Mr. Helmer if he was a felon, to which Helmer replied, &#8220;no.&#8221; (The reason that Mr. Helmer wanted the gun was supposedly to take his accompanying friend to the range. The accompanying friend was really there to surreptitiously film everything.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is no &#8220;gun show loophole&#8221;. According to the Justice Department, less than 1% of criminals admit that they purchased their firearms at gun shows;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=79282\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-79282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BJS-Survey-2-229x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-79282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BJS-Survey-2-229x333.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BJS-Survey-2-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/BJS-Survey-2.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Federally licensed dealers must conduct National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks at gun shows, just like they do in their shops. Private sellers who are not Federally licensed, don&#8217;t have to do NICS checks just like they wouldn&#8217;t if they were selling from a yard sale table on their lawns. Gun shows are not the problem. Law abiding gun owners are not the problem. A real caring person running for government office would highlight the real problem &#8211; prosecutors are not prosecuting gun crimes like they should. There are enough gun laws without writing more that prosecutors won&#8217;t enforce.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/victorygirlsblog.com\/dan-helmer-liar-and-disgrace-to-the-uniform-video\/\">Victory Girls<\/a> wrote a very good piece on Helmer that you should read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a fellow running for the 10th Congressional District of Virginia by the name of Dan &hellip; <a title=\"Dan Helmer; gun show loophole liar\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79281\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dan Helmer; gun show loophole liar<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}