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Mr. Luddite

On 11/14/2014 8:59 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:40:42 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 11/14/2014 11:41 AM, KC wrote:
On 11/14/2014 11:29 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:

On 11/14/14 11:05 AM, wrote:

On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 06:40:07 -0500, F*O*A*D wrote:

I think you missed the point of Luddite's posit entirely. The point is
that firearms are being sold at gun shows sans even the instant
background checks, especially but not only by individuals who are not
FFLs. It has been demonstrated many times that Virginia, in
particular,
a "gunshow loophole state," has numerous individuals selling
firearms to
other individuals at gunshows and at other venues without bothering
with
any background checks.

In another of his posts, he had a statistic that said less than 1% of
the guns used in crimes came from gun shows.

I don't know for a fact but I suspect that 1% number refers to
*reported* gun show sales by a FFL. It's the only way the data could
have been documented.

I don't think it includes "no questions asked" private sales at gun
shows. How could it if there are no records?

Well, if that's the case then "no questions asked" in the context of
this discussion is only a hypothetical too?

sigh

If you are referring to the CNN documentary, they showed and reported
that the sellers didn't even ask the buyer's name let alone any ID. You
can believe that or not believe it, but that's what they reported.

Probably easier for you to just declare the report as being a made-up
hoax like Greg and it will satisfy you.

I never called it a made up hoax, only a carefully edited piece that
threw away all the footage that was not proving the point they started
out to prove and getting about 70 seconds out of hours of tape to
prove it.
They told you they shopped at 5 shows in 4 states over at least 2 days
they showed footage of 4 sellers at 2 shows and talked about 5 guns
from those 4 sellers,. Do you think there were only 5 guns for sale at
5 shows?
Aren't you even intellectually curious enough to ask what happened the
rest of the times they tried to buy a gun?

No. The stated purpose of the documentary was to demonstrate how easily
guns could be purchased with no questions asked.

They bought four guns with no questions asked.

(They also said they were refused by three sellers, one in each of the
three states they visited.)

I think purchasing the four guns with no questions asked proved their point.

That's all. Unlike you, I don't read anything else into it.