Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: NYC: Empire State Shooting: ALL bystanders were shot by police [View all]pipoman
(16,038 posts)The term "gun show loophole" refers to the claimed sales between private individuals who reside in the same state and are acting within that state. For instance, I have 10 guns I have accumulated over my lifetime. I have decided to sell them and travel in my retirement. I go to a gun show (or place an ad in the newspaper, or have a garage sale, etc.) and rent a table, or stand in the parking lot with my trunk open. I sell the guns to other residents of my state. I am not required in most states to report or do anything. The Federal government has no jurisdiction over sales or exchanges of legal personal property between two residents of the same state sold within that state. This is a constitutional limitation on the Federal government....the "commerce clause".
Your response in post #30, "1. Make it federal law.", simply isn't an option or it would already be done. It can't and won't happen now or ever. With that in mind start over again and explain how you are going to accomplish your call for "Effective: close gun show loopholes nationally." from your post #23.
There is an answer which would reduce the problem of unregulated intrastate private sales, but alas the gun controllers in Washington prefer to simply bitch about it....and if the problem was curbed the Brady campaign wouldn't have that soapbox to fund raise on any longer...that would be disastrous as they are already on the verge of bankruptcy..