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Posted by: Recon Number 54
Posted by: The Ruckus 2010
As someone who has been to several gun shows, I can tell you that gun shows are probably where the most serious lapses in regulation occurs. I could buy and walk out with unregistered assault weapons with no background check or anything. The last one I was at horrified me because of all the obviously antisocial people buying military-grade weapons.
If you witnessed such events, you were witnessing a crime. I hope that you reported it.
An assault rifle requires specific conditions to be owned and transferred (as has been the case since 1934).
Your use of the term "military grade" to denote a firearm is odd. Interesting, but odd. There is no such thing. A firearm is either military or it is not. If you are saying "it LOOKS like a military arm", then that is silly. There is no functional difference between a "ranch rifle" and a civilian-legal Armalite action rifle. If you are about to call them "high powered", be careful there too. The 5.56/.223 cartridge is considered and classified as an "intermediate" cartridge. It is neither "high powered" or "military grade".
I am also impressed with your ability to notice that there were no legal checks, AND you could tell who was "anti-social".
In all, I am skeptical of your claims simply because they are dubious and use inflammatory, inaccurate and skewing adjectives.
When you work in the medical field (particularly EMS), you tend to pick up telltale signs of antisocial people. It's part of your training. I'm pretty sure when, from start to finish, the customer walks up to the vendor, picks up the weapon, hands the vendor cash, and walks out, no background check has taken place. The police were walking around all over the place. If there was a problem, it was within their duty to handle it, especially considering that this seemed to be commonplace at this particular show. Granted, I have no knowledge of sales law as it pertains to gun shows. I assume it is no different than a private transaction through Craigslist or the like. I could be wrong, but my assumption was that if the police weren't doing anything about it, then it was legal if only technically. I'm not sure those laws apply to the private sales of firearms (provided of course that such a sale is actually legal), which was clearly what was taking place for about 40% of the show.
I fail to see anything inflammatory about my post. I simply posted my experiences from the gun shows I have attended and my opinion on the lax (again, lax from what I observed) regulations. I do hope that in the furtue you will abstain from attempting to invalidate my experiences when you weren't there. Our gun show experiences differ, obviously. That doesn't mean my experiences were any less valid.
[Edited on 01.07.2013 12:00 PM PST]