Quote Originally Posted by Byte Stryke View Post
In my opinion, if you sell or trade >100 weapons in 365 days you are NOT a private Party.
who's to say it is 100, 50, or even 5? The number of "criminals" stopped from background checks is a joke and at the expense of law abiding citizens. I can sell mary kay products, baseball bats, compound bows, <your hobby here>, out of my house all day long without a license, why would i need a license to sell guns? Have the crime rates decreased since the feds started licensing gun dealers? I suspect they have increased.

One of the major news organizations (maybe fox) had a big article on the recent supreme courts decision for chicago and their handgun bans. they had lots of statistics, which were extremely interesting. For instance, CA gun laws are basically a whole book in themselves, where as CO is a couple pages. CO only has 1-2 deaths more a year per capita than CA, so obviously the laws are not saving lives. The reasoning behind the laws are to "protect" the public.

I'm not too big on public education, however education has proven to be a bigger factor the bans/licensing, just look at the hunter education program, accidental deaths have fallen to near 0 since it's inception.

cheers,
Tim