Maybe it's time for Second Amendment supporters to cut up the plastic and go back to good old hard cash. This is making me think twice. What say you?
How many mass shooters would have not committed their crime if they only had one gun? What percentage of people who buy multiple guns in a "short period" turn out to be mass shooters?
Interesting question, the Parkland shooter only owned a single firearm, but he was also too young to purchase a handgun. I would say considering how rare a real mass shooting is the chances of someone buying a few guns and then going on to commit a mass shooting is almost non-measureable. Now what BATF has discovered is, many people who but a large quantity of firearms in a short period time are often strawman buying for a prohibited person.
Would not such ultimately mean that efforts at preventing the purchasing of large quantities of firearms in a short period of time, would legally amount to inhibiting investigations, obstruction of justice, and attempting to shield criminals from being caught?
The Sante Fe shooter was also too young to buy a handgun, but he acquired on anyway. How did they find this out, given there's no database and tracking of gun purchases, or so we are told.
Most commonly it is due to the filing of a required BATF 3310.4 by the FFL. https://www.atf.gov/file/61426/download
I'm smarter than most Americans and I'm a cash and carry type of patriot and go out of my way not to leave a paper trail. I have always purchased all of my guns, ammunition and accessories using cash. When I go into a gun shop I always turn off the smart phone and the GPS.
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As soon as you purchase a firearm in a gunstore, you have left a paper trail. You present I.D. etc.... Not using a credit card may save you interest, However you are still tracked like it or not.
At gun shows, FFL’s are required to record their transactions as well as perform BCs. The only way a paper trail isn’t preserved is via a private sale. You won’t find that at a gun show table because selling multiple fire arms at a gun show would be considered not a private sale, but an activity requiring licence and transactions subject to BCs and record retention.
Incorrect. I think I mentioned this to you once before. Where I live I can go to a gun show and sell personal guns as private sales from a rented table without doing any checks. A person can also walk around the show carrying a gun with a for sale sign on it and sell it that way, again a private sale. I am a private party not a dealer. My guns are used by me. I buy them, shoot them, trade them with friends and on occasion will go to a gun show and sell three or four.
A A private seller can sell anywhere without a BC leagally, but if sellling multiple guns there is a fuzzy threshold where you can be accused of being an unlicensed dealer, made more difficult in defense of if you are selling multiple guns from a rented booth. I don’t know about the venues you attend, but caught by the sponsors of the ones I work at, if caught doing it without a BC, they will toss you. At most places I attend, FFLs will often run a BC for you for free if you bring them completed forms and IDs.
Not at the shows in CO, even before our UBC. The proposed federal law also fails to limit what FFLs can charge for processing the background check.
I've had the shows promoter stop by my table and chat about how things are going. This guy has been conducting gun shows for over 30 years. I am not a dealer in any form. I am not trying to make a living at this or even turn a profit. I am just trying to get what I have into a gun so I can buy something else to play around with. It's not an issue where I live and shouldn't be an issue anywhere in the US.