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CW4 Guy Butler I purchased a firearm online, and I had to go into the dealer to fill out the paperwork, and then wait for the paperwork to clear before I could pick up the gun. I hate trying to go to the range after gun show weekend. It is always packed with people picking up their purchases and trying them out. So it has been my experience that this is not as true as the propaganda would have morons believe it is.

Despite what some media commentators have claimed, existing gun laws apply just as much to gun shows as they do to any other place where guns are sold. Since 1938, persons selling firearms have been required to obtain a federal firearms license. If a dealer sells a gun from a storefront, from a room in his home or from a table at a gun show, the rules are exactly the same: he can get authorization from the FBI for the sale only after the FBI runs its “instant” background check (which often takes days to complete). As a result, firearms are the most severely regulated consumer product in the United States — the only product for which FBI permission is required for every single sale.
Conversely, people who are not engaged in the business of selling firearms, but who sell firearms from time to time (such as a man who sells a hunting rifle to his brother-in-law), are not required to obtain the federal license required of gun dealers or to call the FBI before completing the sale.
Similarly, if a gun collector dies and his widow wants to sell the guns, she does not need a federal firearms license because she is just selling off inherited property and is not “engaged in the business.” And if the widow doesn’t want to sell her deceased husband’s guns by taking out a classified ad in the newspaper, it is lawful for her to rent a table at a gun show and sell the entire collection.
If you walk along the aisles at any gun show, you will find that the overwhelming majority of guns offered for sale are from federally licensed dealers. Guns sold by private individuals (such as gun collectors getting rid of a gun or two over the weekend) are the distinct minority.

I refuse to give up my constitutional rights so you can "feel safe". I am a small female and when I am travelling alone I carry. Exercising my rights makes me feel safe. Have someone try and rape you and you will come to feel much different about self defense and what it means to "feel safe". The odds of a female being sexually assaulted is MUCH higher than the odds of you getting shot in some "mass shooting". I will never let anyone take away my ability to protect myself or my children!