On 10/4/15 9:03 AM, True North wrote:
Luddite says.

".OMG. Tell you what Bill. Don't worry about it. In your state you are
*not* required to be licensed to purchase or own a gun."


All this tells me that nothing will improve down there until the Federal Gov't makes and enforces all gun regulations. Too many cowboy states doing too little.



We have an insane patchwork of state-by-state firearms laws.

In Maryland, where I live, I can directly transfer or buy a
non-regulated long rifle or shotgun to or from another individual
without even an instant background check, and the transfer is
instantaneous. But if I buy a rifle from a dealer, he runs the instant
background check and then hands over the firearm.

Handguns are regulated. That means in this state you have to go through
a background check and wait seven days for the state police to give its
approval.

There's no rational reason for the difference in transferring long guns
and handguns.

In Virginia, it is even more bizarre. When I sold a SIG semi-auto pistol
I owned to a Virginia buyer, I called the state police to find out what
the procedure was. For two Virginia residents, there was no
procedure...just sell it and hand it over, no checks involved. But I was
out of state, and even at that, the state police told me they really
didn't care, since the state was awash in handgun transfers. Well, I
wanted an official paper trail, so I arranged for a Virginia FFL to
handle the transfer for a few bucks.

At Virginia gunshows, there are individuals walking around carrying
firearms they will sell to you, on an individual to individual basis. No
instant background check, no waiting period. That's part of the gunshow
loophole that Johnnymop Herring says doesn't exist but, of course, he
doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground.