Reply #24: Your post proves that you have NEVER been to a gun show in Texas [View All]

[tburnsten]

Or anywhere else for that matter.


Or maybe you think that anyone who is selling a privately owned firearm is a de facto "dealer"?

Because they are not. Whether someone is selling their privately owned firearm at a show, in a classified ad, or to whoever they happen to meet at the local range, that is generally their right, provided they have no reason to suspect that a potential buyer is prohbited from owning a firearm.

The way the law is currently set up, there is no real way for a private citizen to verify that a buyer isn't lying to them about their ability to own, and the way to fix that is to fix the laws on the books or come up with some other effective way to check, like a mandatory marking on the license of any individual prohibited from owning a firearm. Five second, foolproof check.

The answer isn't to try to infringe on private property rights or make the purchase of a firearm a permanent thing.