Its only a minor inconvenience.......

Recent attempts have been made to remove one of your rights. As usual the perpetrators tried an incremental approach.

Senator Marsh; John Marshall, Secretary of Public Safety; former Superintendent Colonel Massengill, chair of the Va Tech Review panel, and Governor Kaine, usually against a backdrop of grieving parents and relatives, spouted platitudes about feeling safe and removing guns from criminals. They say that they only wanted to affect the very few "unlicensed" gun dealers at gun shows, all the while knowing that they were using a straw man argument, since private sales at gun shows are not by "unlicensed dealers" and very few firearms from private gun show sales are found in criminal hands.

The only way to close this "loophole" is to restrict ALL transfers of firearms.

And here is the proof that THIS is their intention.

From the Violence Policy Center:

In order to be effective, the legislation must apply to all events at which guns are sold in any volume, such as gun shows, flea markets, or swap meets.
In addition, it is imperative that the definition of gun show ensure that transactions initiated at a gun show cannot be consummated off-premises with no background check required.

Over at Red's Trading Post, a business that is being unfairly targeted by their local ATF office, is this gem in speaking about the current candidate for ATF Director, Michael J. Sullivan:

"...at the largest gathering of Anti-Gun organizations, in which Sullivan was the key note speaker, they clearly laid out their plans:"

9. Congress, as well as state, local and tribal governments, should enact laws requiring that all gun sales and transfers proceed through a Federal Firearms License (FFL), thus ensuring that a mandatory background check will be conducted on the transferee.

It goes on to describe the "Unregulated Secondary Market":

This unregulated secondary market includes private sales, classified ads, flea markets, Internet sales and gun shows.

" They state that they are trying to get all guns sales through Federal Firearms License Dealers, while their fellow Anti-Gun Acting ATF Director Michael J. Sullivan and the BATFE is closing down these dealers."



And how do they know if a firearm is PRIVATELY transferred, either by gift OR sale? They would have to know the CURRENT owner.....it would have to be REGISTERED, wouldn't it?