Where is the link?


That said, I thought private gun sales at gun shows were legal... If that is the case I can't see how this meddeling from law enforcement is legal...


But then again, I do not know much about the laws surrounding this particular move by the BATF...

Anybody with a bit more knowledge willing to help me understand better?

You guys will fall for ANYTHING. Can we have any indication at all that this neds to be taken seriously? Does the lack of contact details etc not seem ever-so-slightly suspicious?

Still, I bet it helps boost sales again...

Originally posted by Wembley

You guys will fall for ANYTHING. Can we have any indication at all that this neds to be taken seriously? Does the lack of contact details etc not seem ever-so-slightly suspicious?

Still, I bet it helps boost sales again...

You Goberment Schills will do anything to discredit a patriotic thread like this.
Crawl back under your damp rock

I am an avid gun show attendee, I have been saying for a few years that something is going to happen, based on the popularity, and the large # of gun shows that keep getting more and more prominant.

Guns shows not too many years ago were 3-6 months apart, now there is one within 100 miles of me every weekend, admition is usually $5-8 and there is profit being made by the site owners or there would not be so many popping up...everywhere.

And with that many shows, there is going to be the few bad apples that have a stolen, or questionably legal firearm, and just by the #'s alone the odds that this will happen is bad, not just bad but given, that it will and it will hurt us all.

I don't know the solution, but when gun show booth salesmen travel like circus kearney's and have new show every single weekend, it tends to draw the wrong kind of attention IMHO. And I think this is going to be the downfall of the whole thing.

It will be a sad day!!!!!

But IMHO I think the blame comes back at the same people, greed of the venders/promoters!

Originally posted by Vinveezy

WHAT A CROCK!

Why don't you all read this thing carefully, and stop putting sensational headlines on threads that are clearly not true?

Did anyone BAN anything? NO, NO, NO! I thought people on ATS were smarter than what I am seeing here in this thread. It's one thing to believe in conspiracies... it's all together something else to be a delusional conspiracy nutter.

Notice carefully the wording of this paper...

"At the direction of the Austin Police Department and the BATF, anyone selling a firearm at this show location will be ASKED to comply with the following:

1. Any person selling a personal firearm must go through a licensed FFL Dealer in the show to transfer the firearm to the new owner.

2. Selling of firearms in the parking lot will not be permitted.
"

What does that say? That people selling firearms (not buying firearms) are REQUESTED (not ordered) to use a licensed FFL Dealer to register the new owner of the gun.

Gun vendors have had the requirement of licensing for a long time in America. So what's new?

They didn't BAN anything. This thread is "MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING."

They are simply asking that people selling guns do it inside the building and they are politely asking that if you are not a licensed vendor, that you honor the law by having any gun registration transferred by a vendor that has a valid Federal Firearms License, required for firearm vendors.

Sorry people, but requiring registration of vendors in no way violates any constitutional anything, for the Constitution everywhere grants the government the right to REGULATE how public rights and privileges are administered.


[edit on 18-1-2010 by downisreallyup]