Reply #14: Not to but into another subthread

[pipoman]

but this post is complete shit spewn forth by those who know nothing.

It's private sellers with a thousand guns up for sale that face basically no regulation.

This is a state issue, private sales of guns that is, the federal government has no jurisdiction on intrastate sale of private property of any sort. If you set up at a gunshow without an FFL with guns you had better be able to demonstrate that they are part of your personal accumulation and not purchased for resale...people are jailed for this.

Not to mention the complete and utter lack of regulation on assault rifles and other automatic weapons. There is no logical purpose for owning an M4A1 and there definitely shouldn't be anyway a fucking teenager could buy one.

And this right here is a complete and total lie. Nothing could be further from the truth. Automatic weapons have been heavily regulated since 1934, the registry was closed in 1984. There hasn't been a single violent crime committed i n the US with an automatic weapon in over 10 years. Sorry you have been mislead and lied to by the Rethug Bradys on this issue.

I remember not to long ago there was a story about a kid shooting himself to death *at a gun show* with an uzi because he slipped while firing it and hit himself in the head.

Initially reported at a gun show, turned out it wasn't a gun show at all, it was a machine gun shoot at a gun club. The Uzi was owned by a person who owned it legally, had the approval of the sheriff of his county, underwent a complete FBI background check, waited 6 months, agreed to allow the BATFE to inspect his gun unannounced at will, paid a $200 transfer fee. The father and the gun owner (who I am sure no longer is allowed to own automatic weapons) are the idiots in that story.