[AF] Ha!

[Jason R.]

However - they DO  check your background by way of your concealed carry
permit at gun shows.

  It allows you to carry the weapon home while the paperwork is still in
process.  It is a huge liablity to have a permit.
You now have the training and responsibility associated with the proper use
of a new degree of force.

  Present a bad ID at a gun show when you purchase a new weapon, and
somebody will come looking for you to retrieve the weapon.  A bit late,
perhaps, as it didn't just stop you at the counter from buying, but, it is
based on the idea that you had to pass a more stringent background check,
plus 14-odd college-style hours in use of force laws, liability, etc.  (that
means, a two day class didn't cut it) then still had to demonstrate the
ability to shoot.  You go to the local SO, get fingerprinted, they go to the
state capital with your packet and they used two take around 4 months to
decide if deserved the opportunity to carry your weapon.

   It used to also be fairly expensive.  Couple hundred dollars for the
paperwork.  A few more for the course.  A few more for the training.
And, you can give it all up at any time for failing to carry properly or
disclose properly. Or for being DWI/DUI.

  The 'gun show' thugs and general peddlers of death on a stick, or however
you like to view them, are taking the abnormally huge risk that since you
had done all the stuff required for a permit and kept the permit in good
standing, you probably were not a huge risk to go postal or be carrying a
bad permit when they sold you the gun.  All the un trained unwashed masses
that purchase the weapon without a permit are allowed to transport it
home... and that's all until they get the paperwork from the state regarding
the status of their registration of that weapon.

  Vendors at guns shows can and occasionally do refuse to sell to
individuals who do not appear to be holding the ticket appropriately, and,

through the static resellers the wait time is now three days, rather than
the older three weeks to actually legally own the weapon, although there is
nothing in the state or federal constitutions to say you cannot transport an
unloaded weapon home from the vendor while you wait to see if your
investigation clears.

Its now also illegal for an individual to sell give or transfer a weapon
(firearm) to another without their FFL, you know.

Points to ponder, I suppose.

  Jason

>
> >Well, yeah.  Since when can anyone buy RPGs at gun shows?  50-mm machine
> >guns?  Duh.
>
> I take it you didn't see the 60 minutes piece on gun shows. All of
> those were there with no requirement for a background check. Gun
> shows aren't governed by the same laws as gun shops.
>
> Rich