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Omaha Steve

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Reply to mybuddy (Reply #9)

Wed Jun 11, 2014, 08:33 PM

Jun 2014

Hit & run DUer?

The FBI background checks are excellent. I register firearms for a living. It is the loopholes where they aren't performed that need to be fixed.

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Oregon Shooting Draws Obama�s Outrage on Gun Laws [View all] Omaha Steve Jun 2014 OP

Background checks and ammo limits are held hostage by the broken primary system that Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #1

Oregon has background checks. former9thward Jun 2014 #18

That may or may not be true, but its affect on one shooting doesn't make it a bad idea CreekDog Jun 2014 #20

And when you post anti-rights posts I will be along to refute them. former9thward Jun 2014 #21

You're saying that when I post anti right wing posts, you'll be along to refute them... CreekDog Jun 2014 #22

+100 billh58 Jun 2014 #26

I can already hear the GOPers - 'Obama's playing politics with this tragedy' groundloop Jun 2014 #2

Background checks are already required mybuddy Jun 2014 #3

No background checks are required if bought from a private party. ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2014 #5

Private party sales are checked mybuddy Jun 2014 #8

Not all of them are checked. ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2014 #12

Since you are accusing others of lying ... former9thward Jun 2014 #19

I didn't say it did. ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2014 #28

I suggest you stay far away from homes with teenage boys and young men in their 20s. former9thward Jun 2014 #29

I am a man in my 20's. ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2014 #32

You and your anecdotal friends do not a generation make. former9thward Jun 2014 #33

And yours does? ForgoTheConsequence Jun 2014 #34

It is so easy to get around background checks Omaha Steve Jun 2014 #7

So the Federal goverment is doing a poor job at conducting background checks mybuddy Jun 2014 #9

Do you propose Omaha Steve Jun 2014 #10

Of course they propose billh58 Jun 2014 #11

Almost 24 hours and no reply Omaha Steve Jun 2014 #31

And those have certainly succeeded in stopping all these horrible school shootings... Rhiannon12866 Jun 2014 #24

Second Amendment absolutists and billh58 Jun 2014 #27

If Newtown didn't change hearts and minds... Rhiannon12866 Jun 2014 #30

The Constitution give us the "right" to bear arms. Whatever that means. Lost In America Jun 2014 #4

Herrington v. District of Columbia already addressed your concern mybuddy Jun 2014 #6

No, it really doesn't give... beevul Jun 2014 #15

Federal Regulation is NOT the same thing as infringement, though.. Volaris Jun 2014 #16

The devil, as always, is in the details. N/T beevul Jun 2014 #17

At some point it does become infringement hack89 Jun 2014 #23

A well regulated militia IronLionZion Jun 2014 #25

74 school shootings since Newtown. neverforget Jun 2014 #13

Call me skeptical davidpdx Jun 2014 #14