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Gun Control Reform Activism

PoliticAverse

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6. "Or, they can sit out in the parking lot and sell away from their trunk."

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #5)

Thu Sep 19, 2013, 04:43 PM

Sep 2013

That's the point - it has nothing to do with a gun show, they could do that at any parking lot.
If you consider it a loophole, you should call it a 'private sale loophole' not a 'gun show loophole'.

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Texas gun show loophole armed a Zeta drug lord [View all] Robb Sep 2013 OP

"He was a felon illegally selling guns." - he was breaking the law. n/t PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #1

They should have done a background check on him! rdharma Sep 2013 #3

But I was told there IS NO gun show loophole! rdharma Sep 2013 #2

There isn't . What he was doing wouldn't have been any different (with respect to the law) PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #4

Yes there is. One who doesn't sell enough guns to be deemed a dealer, can set up a table at a gun Hoyt Sep 2013 #5

"Or, they can sit out in the parking lot and sell away from their trunk." PoliticAverse Sep 2013 #6

Immoral people can take 10, 20, 30 guns to a gun show to sell -- as long as not on a regular basis. Hoyt Sep 2013 #7

shocking :| frylock Sep 2013 #8