(June 15, 2017 at 11:02 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 15, 2017 at 10:31 am)Shell B Wrote: I read he had a pretty wacky criminal history. Yep. That should have stopped him buying a gun, imo.But his history wouldn't have stopped a relative or friend with a clean history from buying a gun for him. Or he could just go to a gun show and ignore background checks.
This. At least where I live, those exempt from requiring background checks are person to person gun sales and gun sales at gun shows. Then you also have guns that have been grandfathered into the family. My other half owns three rifles. All of them handed down from his grandfather and his uncle.
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