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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
The gun show loopholes might help.
My brother-in-law Jim was a paranoid schizophrenic but a clever one never saying or doing anything overt that would have allowed my older brother and sister-in-law to put him into treatment in Virginia. Instead, he purchased several Glock type weapons and started hanging out in gun ranges while also thinking that his sister had been taken over by aliens. My brother threw him out of the house a few years ago. He disappeared for a while but they ran into him walking around Burke Lake and he did not even acknowledge them. A few months later he shot himself with one of the guns he had bought at a VA gun show around November 2014. He left his car with many of his belongings in a field with his dead body as he thought he "journey" would continue according to writings found in his apartment by the police.
Jim had spent most of his life in India as a transcendental meditation teacher. His mentor died and he came back to the States. He immersed himself in Death Wish and other very violent movies. There are a lot of red flags here but my older brother and sister-in-law could not get the VA mental health laws to work for them.
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Why do you think a gun show loophole allowed him to buy the guns? Did he have a record on file with the ATF showing he had been committed or a history of mental illness? If he didn't, then he probably would have passed the background check, assuming he lied on the form he had to fill out. Do you know that the vast majority of gun show sales require a background check? Any licensed dealer at a gun show MUST run a background check, period. In several states there is an additional waiting period after the sale for handguns, even at gun shows. The only guns that can be sold without a background check are personally owned guns an individual is selling to another individual. Yes. They show up at gun shows, but they could also run an ad in their local paper and sell it to someone without a background check.