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Originally Posted by Guest
The private sale law also only applies to the transfer of a firearm between family members. Private sellers are also supposed to do background checks.
The fact is that we have ATF agents at gun shows trying to crack down on private sales because they are not legal.
It's interesting that you mention cars. Over 40,000 in the US were killed in car accidents last year while 11,000 were killed by guns. I heard a woman on television say that we need to pass whatever laws we can even if it were only to save one life. So should we pass more automobile laws?
About 13,000 people were killed as the result of drunk drivers. Do we need to make more laws against drunk driving?
Most people would say no to these questions. The answer is usually, we need to better enforce the laws that we have. I would argue the same thing for guns and gun laws.
More laws won't prevent more deaths. LAWS DON'T PREVENT CRIMES.
We have laws against drunk driving and 13,000 people were killed by drunk drivers. People break the laws. People commit crimes. If all laws were followed, very few people would be killed by a gun. People who commit gun crimes are already breaking several laws.
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Your first three assertions are quite simply
not correct.
1. Florida has no law generally requiring a background check for a Private Firearm Sale In Florida or on the purchaser of a firearm when the seller is
not a licensed dealer.
2. Perhaps you come from a state where private sales of firearms can only be accomplished between family members, but that is not the case in Florida.
3. The ATF agents at gun shows are not there because private sales are illegal, but rather because they are looking for sellers who are pretending to only be doing a small volume of private sales when they are actually selling in numbers that should require that they have a Federal Firearms License.
Carl in Tampa
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