Bless you guys who managed to read that mess. No paragraphs or capitalization keeps me from even trying.
As interested in this thread as I am, I too found it difficult to follow so I gave up.
Bless you guys who managed to read that mess. No paragraphs or capitalization keeps me from even trying.
Leonidas, you're absolutely right. I had and have no problem with people buying multiple guns in one visit. Heck, I do that occasionally. What I do have a problem with is people who will come in, TELL me they're a felon and then have their son try to buy a gun. Yes, that happened once. I've also had the more common example where the banger comes in with a female, hands her cash and she wants to "um, buy, that uh, what was it? Oh yeah, AR15."
I'm not saying it happened every day, or even every week. But it happened enough that you could call it regular.
I emphasize the word "needs", who needs to buy 3 aks or ars at once. The correct answer, Nobody.
I emphasize the word "needs", who needs to buy 3 aks or ars at once. The correct answer, Nobody.
No offense taken here Tx redneck. I am just the type willing to trade a tiny bit of conveneince(my time) for some added safety for my community.
I emphasize the word "needs", who needs to buy 3 aks or ars at once. The correct answer, Nobody.
No offense taken here Tx redneck. I am just the type willing to trade a tiny bit of conveneince(my time) for some added safety for my community.
I emphasize the word "needs", who needs to buy 3 aks or ars at once. The correct answer, Nobody.
No offense taken here Tx redneck. I am just the type willing to trade a tiny bit of conveneince(my time) for some added safety for my community.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I don't feel picked on, if anything this forum is a great venue to express our opinions. Not that mine is any more valid than ya'lls. I think part of our problems in this country today stem from being a "country of individuals" more concerned with ourselves than the greater good. Limiting the number of guns purchased per day may not be the solution but it still doesn't keep a law abiding citizen from owning the guns they want, it just slows the process. There could be much worse regulation out there. If you look at how I feel about it, I am not sacrificing any liberty.
I understand the sentiment....but believe me - only idiotic criminal types buy from shops. Most of 'em are buying from individuals that likely have questionable "heritage" on the gun they're selling. I had a shop one time giving me some grief because I happened to spot several guns that I *really* liked. Now, I'd just gotten done with a good-sized job, so I was sweaty and dirty - but it was obvious to anyone observing that I not only KNEW the guns I was looking at, I was also interested enough to recognize the rarity of one of the guns in particular I was looking at - a 98% Savage 99 hex barrel in .303 Savage.
Ended up with 5 guns set up to purchase, and they started getting all sideways, asking me questions far beyond anything I was required to answer. I got fed up, pulled out my wallet and showed my TDL and CHL, along with about $8k in cash - more than enough to pay for the guns - and told 'em to put 'em back on the shelf, because *I* wasn't interested in buyin' 'em any longer.
Again - I understand the fine line that must be walked, but most of the guns I was wanting (the Savage, a sweet Sauer double barrel, a Blaser and a pair of Colt Series 70's) were NOT the type that go for druggies.
As a FFL, I don't care how many guns you buy (except that I have to fill out ANOTHER form and send it to both my local law doggies and the BATFErs) if you buy two or more pistols within seven days. My opinion of that, or in fact any gun law in light of the clear language of the 2nd and 10th Amendments, and of the clear and often-stated opinions of those who wrote 'em, is that you can have, carry, store, tote around, buy, sell, and give away anydamnthing you want. Period. We are Americans, and that is all the reason anyone needs to have (or not have) anything they want.
However, we don't live in that America (or by those rules). We live in the America that has decided that the law means whatever the folks who are good enough, smart enough, and gosh darn it people like them enough to vote them into office..decides...that it means.
And since I want to play the gun game, I have to play by the rules. As of now, the rules say I can't sell to a "straw buyer." However, the "other" rules (enforced by the race baiters/poverty pimps/looters/moochers) say that I can't "discriminate" on the basis of (fill in annoyingly accurate stereotype here). So, the easy solution is to call the ATF and describe what is going on. They don't bloody well care. They, as evidenced by Fast and Furious, WANT guns in the hands of illegals/gang bangers/druggies/moochers/looters/poverty pimps/etc. so they can use the "guns" to further their political agenda.
Personally, I think...more guns, less crime. Professionally, I am required to follow rules that I don't agree with, that are poorly enforced (and then only against gun dealers and honest, if mistaken, people and not the people or situations that would be the logical targets of such rules).
Go figure.
That said, if you think a person must have to have a "need" to buy one, two, or twenty guns of ANY kind, please lick my taint. My purchases are none of your business, and your little opinions are not welcome in light of that pesky 2nd Amendment...thus you have no need to use your month for "talking." You make a squishy ashtray, a poor doorstop, and an annoying chair warmer. You are of no other use, and any further discussion from your taint-licking hole is a waste of time. Cordially, drop dead.
Alex
what was their reaction?