Thursday, October 20, 2011

Intriguing

This is interesting.  Saw it on Alphecca first.  But lots of bloggers have reported on it since then.

It's the removal of the requirement that you can only buy a pistol in your home state.  Which made sense in 1968, as folks in Nevada wouldn't know or have access to police records in Maryland to know if you are a choir boy, or an ex-con bank robber dressed up like a choir boy.  Nowaday, NICS checks makes that superfluous

So I'd be able to go to the gun show in Virginia and actually BUY something and not have a lot hassle?  Or I could save a lot of money on gun transfers by just driving 2 hours to a gunbroker.com dealer in PA and doing the NICS check at that dealers shop instead of having it shipped it to my local FFL and paying shipping and $75 transfer fee?

Cuz, you know, when I want a pistol I want a very specific model.  And I might have to go far afield to find it.

Talk about common sense gun laws!
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7 comments:

  1. TamOctober 20, 2011 at 7:37 AM

    Yup. We should have started hammering on that hard as soon as NICS went through, since it completely obsoletes the older requirements from GCA '68.

    I thought the gun-grabbers were all about "compromise" and "common sense gun laws".

    Well, it doesn't get much more common sense than this, and where's the compromise for NICS, Sarah?

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  2. Bubblehead Les.October 20, 2011 at 9:06 AM

    Oh, to be able to hit the Gun Shops in W.Va across the River from my parents place in South East Ohio! Or that 90 minute drive to Sharon P.A. from my house. I'm sure one of my "Hen's Teeth" guns is sitting under some glass just across the Border.....

    But it'll probably take a Nuke to get Barry to sign the Bill into Law, even if Chuckie and Diane let it out of the Senate.

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  3. Broken AndyOctober 20, 2011 at 12:37 PM

    Sorry Thunderbolt, but you won't be able to cross into Virginny to buy your gat. VA state law prohibits the sale of firearms to non-residents. That's the basis of an SAF law suit.

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  4. Mike W.October 20, 2011 at 4:09 PM

    Your FFL charges $75 for a transfer? WTF?

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  5. New Jovian ThunderboltOctober 20, 2011 at 4:31 PM

    Maryland, Mike W

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  6. Windy WilsonOctober 20, 2011 at 6:30 PM

    California, too, Mike.

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  7. HunterOctober 22, 2011 at 2:49 AM

    Notice that one of the sponsors of that bill is the junior senator from Alaska, Begich, (D). He knows first hand the problems involved with distance.
    Hunter
    Alaska

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