Using "the war on Terra" to ban private gun sales

[friendly_iconoclast]

Or the "gun show loophole" as some would have it...

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/16/close_the_gun_show_loophole/

[parabellumklr]

1. Are these people so ignorant

that they don't know that you can set up a table in the Walmart parking lot and sell guns all day? That you can put an advertisement in the news paper and meet people in the Police Department parking lot and sell them guns? That you can just walk up to a guy on the street and say "hey, wanna buy a gun?" and sell it to them on the spot? And that you can even sell your registered machine gun to a resident of your own State on Craigslist or at a yardsale? Gun show loophole my ass!

By the way, I bought a handgun from a guy at work for $50. I bet that makes some folks pretty unhappy :)

[one-eyed fat man]

4. stupid people in large numbers..........

In case you missed it, the 2008 draft platform talks openly about "closing the gun show loophole."

http://dustinsgunblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/2008-draft-of-democrat-platform-favors.html

The party leadership ain't figured it out yet that their traditional anti-gun fervor has cost us elections. The "gun-show loophole" is particularly vexing to them as they try to make a Federal crime out of intra-state transactons between private individuals. Their real intent, as you note, is to ban all private sales of guns between anyone anywhere.

[Dukkha]

6. I sold an AR-15 in a restaurant parking lot once

a perfectly legal transfer here. The sale wa initially arranged on an Internet gun classifies

[RC]

2. War on Terra or War against Public Safety?

My money is on Against Public Safety.

[radioburning]

3. Every example they show is at least 7 years old. N/T

[benEzra]

5. Similar crapola here, from the same people:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/15/AR2008081503497.html?hpid=topnews

U.S. May Ease Police Spy Rules

By Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, August 16, 2008; Page A01

The Justice Department has proposed a new domestic spying measure that would make it easier for state and local police to collect intelligence about Americans, share the sensitive data with federal agencies and retain it for at least 10 years.

The proposed changes would revise the federal government's rules for police intelligence-gathering for the first time since 1993 and would apply to any of the nation's 18,000 state and local police agencies that receive roughly $1.6 billion each year in federal grants.

Quietly unveiled late last month, the proposal is part of a flurry of domestic intelligence changes issued and planned by the Bush administration in its waning months. They include a recent executive order that guides the reorganization of federal spy agencies and a pending Justice Department overhaul of FBI procedures for gathering intelligence and investigating terrorism cases within U.S. borders.

Taken together, critics in Congress and elsewhere say, the moves are intended to lock in policies for Bush's successor and to enshrine controversial post-Sept. 11 approaches that some say have fed the greatest expansion of executive authority since the Watergate era.

(more at link)

This is, of course, the same people who want to revoke the gun rights of anyone the administration places on its secret blacklists.