With GOP support, Florida Senate panel
backs closing gun show loophole
News Service of Florida,
by
Dara Kam
Original Article
Posted By: mc squared,
1/14/2020 1:02:30 PM
Over the objections of the National Rifle Association, a state Senate panel Monday unanimously signed off on a far-reaching measure that would close the gun-show “loophole,” create a record-keeping system for private gun sales and set aside $5 million to establish a “statewide strategy for violence prevention.” The proposal (SB 7028) is a priority of Senate President Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, as evidenced by the Senate Infrastructure and Security Committee’s consideration and passage of the measure the day before the 2020 legislative session begins. The sweeping legislation would require background checks and a three-day waiting period for firearms sold “on property to which the public has the
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 1/14/2020 1:18:10 PM (No. 288416)
This isn't slippery slope. This is straight-out gun registration. The only reason to register them is to take them away from the peasants.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
voxpopuli 1/14/2020 1:23:57 PM (No. 288421)
“statewide strategy for violence prevention.”
should do wonders at keeping guns away from
MS13 members and other paragons of virtue..
NOT..
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DaddyO 1/14/2020 1:53:20 PM (No. 288441)
The vast majority of gun sales at gun shows DO BACKGROUND CHECKS. If you are in the business, you have to have a license and if you have a license you have to do background checks. If you only have a few guns to sell you'd be crazy to rent a table at a gun show, it would take away all your profit.
What isn't changing (as far as I can tell) is the provision for selling guns to family or neighbors. Private transactions are not required to do background checks (yet).
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Clinger 1/14/2020 2:19:21 PM (No. 288471)
They are not closing a gun show loophole. They are interjecting government between two private parties wishing to engage in a transaction. Step one, do so in certain places to cover gun shows. Predicted step two, extend that to all places.
Perhaps more of an infringement on individual rights is the requirement that in households where minors under 18 could have access firearms must be "securely stored."
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Shmowry1 1/14/2020 2:27:46 PM (No. 288479)
Insult to injury: taxpayers are also forced to pay for a hyper liberal slush fund in the form of a statewide strategy for violence prevention. I have never heard of such an amorphous waste of taxpayer money.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/14/2020 2:28:49 PM (No. 288481)
Never, ever any regulation or law to punish gun crimes. NEVER. Only restrictions on citizens with NO criminal record. Leftist scum love gun crime. The more horrendous the crime the better for them to fan the panic the gun porn media create. Then some protected elitist 'lawmaker' passes one more infringement on our fundamental right of self defense and beats their chest as a loving hero for future victims. All the while their disarming of citizens leads to more murder, rape and robbery.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 1/14/2020 2:47:54 PM (No. 288495)
There is NO "gun show loophole", all sales at gun shows follow exactly the same laws as sales NOT at gun shows.
100% of new gun sales are done with a background check, at a gun show or at a dealer's place of business.
Private sales are private sales, whether at a gun show or not. So far, no requirement for federal registration for private gun sales.
If private gun sales are banned, then only criminals will have private gun sales and we will have the beginning of a national gun registration system. Gun registration is a required prerequisite for gun confiscation. And gun confiscation is EXACTLY what all of this has ALWAYS been about.
The end game has always been confiscation. There is absolutely no doubt, and now many of them have stopped lying and admitted it.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
hisself 1/14/2020 3:15:55 PM (No. 288518)
Damn glad I moved out of Florida!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mc squared 1/14/2020 4:57:36 PM (No. 288588)
#3: first paragraph - 'private sales'. Doesn' say family and friends are exempt, but when you consider the purpose of the new law I doubt they will be.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Yepper 1/14/2020 5:21:57 PM (No. 288614)
The government has no business no what guns I have any more than they need to know how I voted. Just that I did vote and I did buy a gun after a background check.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
DVC 1/14/2020 6:35:24 PM (No. 288683)
#6, there are about 20,000 gun laws in the USA, and some of them do propose extra penalties to punish gun use. But, sad to say, most prosecutors fail to ask for the extra sentencing for using a gun, so the law is neutered by leftist prosecutors.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JackBurton 1/15/2020 9:18:55 AM (No. 289086)
In the article are a list of attached regulations. You must lock up your weapons at home to keep them safe from the mentally unbalanced. As if my family is suspicious.
And more. This loophole stuff is the tip of the iceberg.
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Don't believe in 'slippery slopes?
No word on whether a CWP would exempt buyers from the 3 day wait as it does now. The so called 'loophole' purchase is often conducted between people who live hundreds of miles away. How would that work, or is that the idea?