spqrzilla
02-01-2013, 19:46
I wrote the following letter to Bennett because his response to my email pissed me off:
Senator Michael Bennett
1127 Sherman St., Suite 150
Denver, Colorado 80203
Dear Senator Bennett,
I recently contacted you to express to you my strong opposition to the proposed gun control legislation in the US Congress. In your form response, you made mention of closing the “gun show loophole”. I continue to be infuriated when politicians make reference to the “gun show loophole”.
There is no such thing. The Gun Control Act of 1968 first required that dealers in firearms be licensed by the government and the system of ATF regulated Federal Firearms Licensees was created. Persons of different states were forbidden from transferring firearms between themselves without an FFL dealer and the completion of a Federal Form 4473 (false statements on which were a criminal offense).
When the Brady Act required background checks to be made in all 50 states, on sales made by FFL’s, for the first time, transactions between private parties who were residents of the same state were not covered. And they were not intended to be covered. Sales by dealers require background checks regardless of where the sale is conducted, as the dealers’ store or a gun show. Claims to the contrary by gun control activists are intentional falsehoods.
Private parties who are residents of the same state and who find each other at a gun show are not required by Federal law to conduct a background check or use the services of an FFL. Just as they would not be so required if they found each other on Craigslist, in a classified newspaper ad, or by simply being neighbors. There is no “Craigslist loophole”, there is no “classified ad loophole” and there is no “gun show loophole”. It is a fraudulent slogan.
There is a Colorado state law that requires that people who do happen to find each other at a gun show are required to conduct a background check. The actual result is that my private gun club must now forbid its members from selling guns to each other on club property for fear that the annual club picnic be considered a “gun show”. And no appreciable effect on crime.
Please cease repeating the lies of gun control organizations.
Senator Michael Bennett
1127 Sherman St., Suite 150
Denver, Colorado 80203
Dear Senator Bennett,
I recently contacted you to express to you my strong opposition to the proposed gun control legislation in the US Congress. In your form response, you made mention of closing the “gun show loophole”. I continue to be infuriated when politicians make reference to the “gun show loophole”.
There is no such thing. The Gun Control Act of 1968 first required that dealers in firearms be licensed by the government and the system of ATF regulated Federal Firearms Licensees was created. Persons of different states were forbidden from transferring firearms between themselves without an FFL dealer and the completion of a Federal Form 4473 (false statements on which were a criminal offense).
When the Brady Act required background checks to be made in all 50 states, on sales made by FFL’s, for the first time, transactions between private parties who were residents of the same state were not covered. And they were not intended to be covered. Sales by dealers require background checks regardless of where the sale is conducted, as the dealers’ store or a gun show. Claims to the contrary by gun control activists are intentional falsehoods.
Private parties who are residents of the same state and who find each other at a gun show are not required by Federal law to conduct a background check or use the services of an FFL. Just as they would not be so required if they found each other on Craigslist, in a classified newspaper ad, or by simply being neighbors. There is no “Craigslist loophole”, there is no “classified ad loophole” and there is no “gun show loophole”. It is a fraudulent slogan.
There is a Colorado state law that requires that people who do happen to find each other at a gun show are required to conduct a background check. The actual result is that my private gun club must now forbid its members from selling guns to each other on club property for fear that the annual club picnic be considered a “gun show”. And no appreciable effect on crime.
Please cease repeating the lies of gun control organizations.