Follow the money? FFLs aren't required to charge you a transfer fee.
Couldn't a new BGC law require a fee for each call in? How are they going to pay for a 40% increase in 4473's without some sort of fee?
Follow the money? FFLs aren't required to charge you a transfer fee.
At gun shows anyone can rent a table and sell their goods. FFL dealers must run background checks just as they do in their brick and mortar store. If a private collector rents a booth he/she does not run background checks just as anyone would not when selling through a private transaction. In my opinion the only way to close the "loophole" is to require gun registration. Then all sales would have to go through a FFL dealer for the required background checks and we would have to pay for this. I also don't care for the fact that the govt will be keeping a database of any firearms I might own. All of this nonsense would not of prevented what happened in Connecticut so it really pi$$es me off. It's so obvious that the Democrats are taking advantage of this horrible situation in order to push there anti-gun agenda.
If Dems were interested in just fixing this at gun shows, as the name "gun show loophole" clearly implies, then I would be fine with that. But all they are really interested in is universal registration (and eventual confiscation as the end game, even if it isn't in our lifetime).
Note that doing an FFL transfer, which is what they want, goes far beyond just a NICS check, and involves the 4473 file with names, addresses, and serial numbers--and they want this info added to a central database, and not just stored on paper at gun shops as it is now.
They aren't required to charge a fee, but as a business owner would you want your (or your staff) time overseeing your business or donating your time to oversee the business of others.
Also, who is required to hold paperwork if the gun shop is doing the background check? Are they also eventually going to be responsible then for checking the the serials on these non-customers' guns to see if they were reported stolen or not?
Depending on how this is implemented, this is just as big (or bigger) of a headache for FFLs than it is for private joe schmoe who wants to sell his gun.
there is no state background checkMy local dealer told me right now he charges $10.00 for a transfer. He said if it went through with "all sales thru FFL" he would have to raise that. He
said he would have man hours involved with everything from the check to records keeping.
Also he said there may also be the fact that sales taxes are possible with this too. Of course we here already have to pay the state $10.00 for thier background check on top of everything else.
So what if there is a law that says they have to delete NICS data daily, but before then it is shared with other agencies and there isn't any law saying those other agencies have to delete it. Besides, since when has anyone in the .gov cared about laws?
there is no state background check
gotcha. IN does not have a state check so I was a tad confusedExactly.
I live in TN. We have the state ran TICS here. It's all about $$$. They still use the NICS but use the TN system.
just what is the gun show loophole?/QUOTE]
It's what some would call "The 10th Amendment." (I think that's the one.)
"Congress shall pass no law regarding intrastate commerce.". Gun Grabbers call it "The Gun Show Loophole." It's easier to give up that when you word it like that.