New study finds vast online marketplace for guns without background checks
Source: Washington Post
The study focused on Armslist.com — a popular classified site similar to Craigslist.org that facilitates private sales of firearms and ammunition based on location — and analyzed listings in the 10 states where both of their senators voted against a background checks compromise this spring.
At any given time, more than 15,000 guns were for sale in those states, according to the study, and more than 5,000 of them were semi-automatic weapons. Nearly 2,000 ads were from prospective buyers asking to buy specifically from private sellers, where no background checks are required.
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The National Rifle Association and other gun rights supporters have advocated against expanding the background check system because they believe doing so will not stop society’s most dangerous people from procuring weapons and eventually will lead to even stricter gun regulations, including a federal registry.
But gun-control advocates have long prioritized closing the gun show loophole, believing that is where people seeking to avoid background checks buy their firearms. Hatalsky noted that 17 states have closed the gun show loophole in their states, and that law enforcement officers have become savvy about scouring gun shows for people evading the law.
But online, she said, "nobody’s monitoring this. Nobody has any ability to stop these people who are looking for private sellers — and the only reason to do that is to evade the background check system."
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Between the gun issue and the Third Way, this should be a heck of DU food fight. That said, based on my own limited experience, these numbers don't seem unbelievable. That is an awful lot of guns.
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right, neither apply, your hero was/is just a racist hater of blacks. Although maybe the mental illness is very well hidden by zimPIG..geez
You bringing that POS up in defending your point. 
I don't think you really had/have a problem with the verdict. ...........
please spare me. I did read the whole post and edited my response to you. You minimize american gun culture insanity to one trial and shameful verdict? Civil rights? You are good.
cliff is right over the rise, keep marching.
I said, keep marching. geez
parade of sanity when it comes to killing implements in the hands of citizens of a culturally, historically violent country. B.O. has a political view of the 2nd amendment, that is he is mollifying people like you. 'The district of columbia vs. heller' states my objections to assault rifles, zimPIGs carrying any type of weapon, children in the streets with weapons, shooting at each other. There are too many weapons in circulation. Period. I can't do anything about that, yet I can strongly object to the ease in which it is possible for a child to obtain a weapon. How easy is is for psychotics like zimPIG and crooks in general to ccw and/or obtain illegal weapons respectively. Yeah you can ramble on about 'rights', what are you doing about wrongs?
shoot on. May your karma keep up. 2 clueless in one day! I'm on a roll here.
that just proves that lax and weak gun laws are easily circumvented. In america, guns, like money, is king. Everything thing else pales to insignificance. oh and I went to article and site. Truly amazing how clueless and uncaring gun nuts are in our culture. Bushmaster killing implement. 850.00.geez
