Somebody finally came out and said it.
Daniel Gross,current sacrificial lamb president of the Brady Bunch, actually said the words.
That is because of the 40 percent. Sometimes you will hear this problem referred to as the “gun show loophole.” But that is a dramatic understatement. The reality is a full 40 percent of all legal gun sales in our nation require no background check at all. That includes every gun sale that takes place outside a federally licensed firearm dealer — an estimated millions of guns sold every year, thousands of guns sold every day, not only at gun shows, but also through private sales arranged over the Internet or through classifieds (basically a permanent, massive national gun show).
Them bubbas is buyin’ and sellin’ evil guns without official permission! The sky is falling! Cluck!
You’re familiar with the “gun show loophole.” We’re expected to believe that criminals, wife beaters and racist, homophobic domestic terrorists traipse down to the Crossroads of the West every weekend to fill their pickups with machine guns and grenades. The ones that don’t get sold to Mexican drug lords find their way to spas in Wisconson or something. Gun shows are evil!
Of course the guilty little secret of the “Gun show loophole” crowd is that it isn’t just gun shows they object to. It’s gun sales. Actually, gun transfers of any kind – at least outside “federally licensed firearm dealers.” If they have their way you won’t give your daughter that .22 for her birthday. You won’t sell that disused shotgun to your neighbor. You won’t do anything of the sort without the express permission of your masters (and of course their selfless advisers in the brady bunch.) Not without risking a lovely stay in a pound-you-in-the-ass federal prison, you won’t.
40%? I don’t know where he got that figure, but I don’t dispute it. Could be right. Could be conservative for all I know. I am a proud member of the 40%.
Hm. How many guns do I own that I actually bought from or through an FFL? Two, I think. No, three. But one of those long predated the “brady criminal background check.” So far none of the others have clawed their way free of my restraint and killed anybody. Yeah, he includes that lovely and venerable bit of double-plus ungrammar:
We are better than a nation that allows 32 people to be murdered by guns every day –
“Murdered by guns.” Heh.
Bad murdering gun! No Hoppes #9!
“Bad murdering gun! No Hoppes #9!”
That’s it. Coffee’s everywhere. 🙂
I wonder how bad he’d crap if he knew how many I built in he spare bedroom?
between 90 and 100 people die on an average day by way of motor vehicles. the brady bunch doesn’t want to ban drivers from owning cars.