Assault weapons ban dropped from Senate bill

[Trunk Monkey]

131. Then, no, he wasn't buying the firearms legally

Buying a firearm with the intent to resell it across state lines is a federal crime.

Intent counts.

That's no different that a person with an MMJ card reselling his weed it's still a crime and he still bought it with the intent to resell it illegaly.

Do you think this guy would have a problem paying a straw buyer to make the purchases? (Which would still be illegal BTW).

I think this problem needs to be fixed first

According to the NRA-ILA there were 17 million background checks conducted last year out of that number 79,000 were denied and of that number 62 (that's not a typo it's not 62 thousand it's sixty two) were prosecuted and only thirteen were convicted.

Before we worry about private sales shouldn't we devote resources to investigating those 79 thousand people that were denied?

No joke I was with a friend who was buying a gun a few years ago when the BGC came back "DENIED" on him. The gun shop owner handed him his money and he walked out of the store and as far as the law was concerned that was the end of it.

Now my friend went home got a lawyer, appealed the denial and found out that he was denied over a petty misdemeanor from 20 years ago. It cost him some money and some time but he got the denial reversed and the "crime" expunged from his record.

But during the whole time the ATF never once followed up on the guy, the local PD was never informed nothing was done to see why this guy was trying to buy a gun in the first place.

Don't you think that might be a problem that needs fixing?