Originally Posted by
Zundfolge
The fear that this is a "setup" is foolishness. Most of the Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in the state are on record saying they will not enforce this law so I doubt they're putting together task forces to do catch violators of this law ... and F-Troop doesn't enforce local laws, only Federal ones.
AT WORST you might have some anti-gun "journalists" trying to trick people into doing off paper transactions for a story, but that's about it.
At any rate, if you're not comfortable buying or selling without going through the BGC then don't.
I would never use this forum to suggest anyone do anything illegal ... but there is a good argument that bypassing the stupid new BGC law is a form of civil disobedience ... but hey, we're plenty comfortable here in the back of the bus, no need to rock the boat or anything. Know your place, prole ... and all that.
Common? You mean to the tune of hundreds if not thousands of times a day? I bought and sold more guns than I remember between private parties without a BGC for decades. It was commonplace. It was done on this very forum dozens of times a day. I hate how we're already so used to this stupid new law that we're pretending that guns weren't bought and sold freely by citizens commonly or that its been the way it is now for generations or some other such foolishness. I understand that we should be obeying the law here, but for Christ sake do we also have to pretend that we like it? Do we have to pretend it's a good law? It's no wonder we're losing America to the Statists ... we freely give and roll over the first chance we get ... sheesh.
Bollocks. It was never "the responsibility" of a seller to verify if the buyer was eligible in a private transaction. Unless it could be proved that you "knowingly" sold to a prohibited person you were in no legal jeopardy in the least. The responsibility was ALWAYS on the buyer.
