Virginia Tech Survivor With Hidden Camera Films Dangerous Gun Sales at Gun Shows [View All]

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from HuffPost:




Paul Helmke
President, Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Posted: November 18, 2009

Virginia Tech Survivor With Hidden Camera Films Dangerous Gun Sales at Gun Shows




Should someone who wants to buy a military-style assault weapon be required to undergo a criminal background check?

In America they don't have to.

In fact, felons, gangsters, wife-beaters, and the dangerously mentally ill can buy as many military-style assault weapons, semi-automatic pistols and other firearms as they can carry, with no questions asked.

They just have to know where to go.

It's no secret. There are thousands of gun shows in 43 states that don't require Brady criminal background checks for all gun show sales.

Why do criminals and traffickers go to gun shows? As the bank robber Willie Sutton might have put it, "Because that's where the guns are."

Our weak gun laws make it lethally simple for unlicensed gun vendors to sell as many firearms as they can to whomever they can, cash and carry.

Colin Goddard proved it. Colin survived being shot four times at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007. After learning more about our nearly non-existent laws restricting access to guns, he took it upon himself to document how easy we make it for dangerous people to get guns in this country.

Watch Colin's story here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/virginia-tech-survivor-wi_b_362152.html


This past summer, Colin went to gun shows across America in Minnesota, Ohio, Texas and his home state of Virginia. Equipped with a hidden camera and accompanied by a resident of each state he visited, Colin filmed how recklessly -- even callously -- unlicensed gun sellers sold military-style assault weapons and semi-automatic pistols with no criminal background check, and without even requiring identification. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-helmke/virginia-tech-survivor-wi_b_362152.html