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« Heller symposium | Main | AG nominee on the gun issue »

Obama's AG nominee: gun shows are for terrorists

Posted by David Hardy · 20 November 2008 07:30 AM

Story here.

14 Comments | Leave a comment

Rivrdog | November 20, 2008 8:02 AM | Reply

There are several things that President-elect Obama and his advisors need to learn.

The first is that they cannot stop trade in firearms. It exists even in dictatorships where it is punishable by death.

The second is that those of us who buy and sell a few guns DO police ourselves. I suspect that if someone showed up to a gun show with a weapon that had a ground-off serial number, no only would we refuse to buy or trade for it, we would probably advise the person possessing it of their transgression, and need to turn the gun in.

Lastly, we have gotten WAY ahead of this onrushing over-regulation of firearms, and are prepared for all the exigencies such regulation might impose.

In other words, a gun ban won't fly.

A Texan | November 20, 2008 8:35 AM | Reply

"...a gun ban won't fly."

If there IS a gun ban, things other than (though related to) guns will fly.

Tom | November 20, 2008 9:29 AM | Reply

Uh HELLO! box cutters & cruise missiles! Border that's as open as a low priced hooker, and GUN SHOWS are the problem?

Stop the democrat's world, I want to get off.

denton | November 20, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply

Holder's statement that buyers at a gun show are legally exempt from a background check is a rather glaring legal error for someone who wants to be the country's top attorney.

doug. in colorado | November 20, 2008 10:09 AM | Reply

Straw purchasers are a problem that can't easily be gotten around, other than upping the penalty to the point that no one in their right mind would buy a gun for a criminal...and that still leaves duress..."buy me a gun or I'll hurt your children," for example. But a gun store is just as vulnerable to a straw purchaser as any gun show...the same instant background checks are required in most states....but anyone who states or implies that terrorists are buying grenades, launchers, rockets, explosives or automatic weapons at a gun show is doing some serious drugs. If you have an illegal source for those, they can probably provide in addition anything you could legally pick up at a gun show...and stopping gun shows would only punish the innocent.

rio arriba | November 20, 2008 12:23 PM | Reply

Statists don't care about reason and logic. Nor even the truth. They care about having power over people.

Kristopher | November 20, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply

Denton:

Here in WA, private sales between individual WA state residents do not require any check.

And we like it that way.

Holder and other GFWs like him can FOAD. We will continue to make private sales, even if forbidden to do so.

The Mechanic | November 20, 2008 1:23 PM | Reply

These Clinton retreads aren't people that can be reasoned with. Just hunker down and wait em out. I recommend sonobuoy tubes and cosmolene

JustinGA | November 20, 2008 6:43 PM | Reply

Private sales are different from FFL sales. Every firearm I've ever purchased at a gun show has been from an FFL, and it has always involved a background check (until, that is, I got my carry permit.) The idea that private sales are somehow a "loophole" ignores the fact that "closing" such a "loophole" would not stop private sales of firearms; it would just criminalize innocent citizens who want to sell firearms to each other when convenient.

RKV | November 20, 2008 6:47 PM | Reply

The whole idea that the government needs to be in the middle of a sale of firearms is WRONG. It's nobody's business if I exercise my inalienable rights.

Tarn Helm | November 21, 2008 8:22 AM | Reply

So be it.

Now that the agency which polices our firearms ownership (and other stuff) is directly under the control of the AG's office (you know which agency I'm talking about), it is only a matter of time before we will all be greatly "inconvenienced"--and we'll be having debates--behind bars--about the difference between "infringed" and "inconvenienced."

But you won't ever see some people behind those bars.

Tom | November 22, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply

"Holder's statement that buyers at a gun show are legally exempt from a background check is a rather glaring legal error for someone who wants to be the country's top attorney."

This misperception of firearms laws is why we get ineffective gun laws attempted through congress.

straightarrow | November 22, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply

"Holder and other GFWs like him can FOAD. We will continue to make private sales, even if forbidden to do so."-krisopher

I beg to differ, these misanthropes do not fear guns, they love them. They fear free men with guns. They love guns in the hands of their enforcers.

mandee | November 23, 2008 8:08 PM | Reply

Its funny all these gun ban morons don’t even no how to read FBI statistics. The three top US cities for murder Detroit MI, Baltimore MD and Newark NJ have very restrictive gun laws. The constitution of the United States of America states that the citizenry be afforded the right to bear arms and the Supreme Court upheld that amendment. Hard working people should be able to protect themselves. Protection isn’t for the elite only. If Holder doesn't like guns he doesn't have to buy one after all its a free country.

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