Keep hitting this poll to ban private sales!

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And a few good comments too since the poll answers aren't comprehensive.

http://hamptonroads.com/pilotonline

Should unlicensed gun dealers have to run background checks on buyers?

*** What exactly is an "unlicensed dealer"?***
A PRIVATE CITIZEN!!!!! AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Done 70 y, 28 n, 2 U

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Now they have reworded the question but didn't reset the numbers WTF!!!
Should unlicensed gun sellers have to run background checks on buyers?

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longwatch wrote:

Now they have reworded the question but didn't reset the numbers WTF!!!
Should unlicensed gun sellers have to run background checks on buyers?

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At least they re-worded it.

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It is still a poll skewed by intentionally biased language. Any poll open to all comers is about as useless as ice skates when scuba diving. It shows the basic ignorance of the media that they even run these useless polls and act like they have any meaning whatsoever.

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phoglund wrote:

It is still a poll skewed by intentionally biased language. Any poll open to all comers is about as useless as ice skates when scuba diving. It shows the basic ignorance of the media that they even run these useless polls and act like they have any meaning whatsoever.

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Ah crap, gotta close the thread now...

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Does this really need a sticky?

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well unlicensed dealer would be a criminal.. they must mean private citizens in which case absolutely NOT!.

poll is idiocy.

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I guess we can all read it several ways. My take is they are asking....

Should someone who is not a FFL gun dealer (Who is required to do checks) be required to do a check on someone wanting to buy a gun they are selling?

It appears that no matter how you word it... the majority of people voting want checks to be done onthe sale.

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LEO 229 wrote:

It appears that no matter how you word it... the majority of people voting want checks to be done onthe sale.

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I'm not so sure.

If it were worded, "should a person buying a firearm from his neighbor be forced to undergo a background check," I doubt the majority would say yes to this blatantly biased question. The trouble is, the question is blatantly biased the other way.

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ama-gi wrote:

LEO 229 wrote:

It appears that no matter how you word it... the majority of people voting want checks to be done onthe sale.

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I'm not so sure.

If it were worded, "should a person buying a firearm from his neighbor be forced to undergo a background check," I doubt the majority would say yes to this blatantly biased question. The trouble is, the question is blatantly biased the other way.

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Come on... you loaded it up using the word "Forced" and that is far worse than "Required"

Nobody wants to be "Forced" to do anything. That has the sounds of hands on violence and making you do something you do not want to do.

Example: The rapist forced her to remove her clothing. versus.. The rapist required her to remove her clothing.

Nobody is stopping you from buying or selling the firearm. You can always break the law and just do it. You would be punished as you would for breaking any other law.

Just like the seller may require you to have a background check... he may require you to pay cash. Or is he forcing you to pay cash? :lol: If you are being forced to turn over cash that may actually be a robbery.

How about...

"Should a background check be required for any person wishing to purchasea firearm from another private citizen?"

or

"Should a background check be required on anyonewanting to purchase a firearm?"

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How about, "should brady background checks be required of all gun transfers, thus (1) banning transfers to those who's papers are not in order, (2) banning handgun transfers to those under 21,(3) creating a paper trail tracking Americans' gun ownership, and (4) allowing the government to stop all transfers at a moments notice by shutting down the background check system?"

That's what this proposal means.

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Mike wrote:

How about, "should brady background checks be required of all gun transfers, thus (1) banning transfers to those who's papers are not in order, (2) banning handgun transfers to those under 21, (3) creating a paper trail tracking Americans' gun ownership, and (4) allowing the government to stop all transfers at a moments notice by shutting down the background check system?"

That's what this proposal means.

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See Pennsylvania. Circa last autumn...

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Mike wrote:

How about, "should brady background checks be required of all gun transfers, thus (1) banning transfers to those who's papers are not in order, (2) banning handgun transfers to those under 21, (3) creating a paper trail tracking Americans' gun ownership, and (4) allowing the government to stop all transfers at a moments notice by shutting down the background check system?"

That's what this proposal means.

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More than just that. There has to be a penalty for not doing a background check, a go to jail card. So that private individual must keep a record or some sort of proof that he made the check, and realistically he has to keep it forever otherwise how would he prove he didn't sell it yesterday to the BG? God forbid that he should loose that record, or the government should loose theirs..., and the gun be used in a crime later on. Even if there's a time limit in the law of say three years how do you prove you sold it more than three years ago.

It's unworkable. Punish the crime doer, severly if you must, not the good citizen!

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Done

Yes 42%
No 57% :celebrate
Undecided 1%