If you go to a gun show to purchase a firearm from a dealer you will be subjected to a background check. Period. No gun show loop hole. However, I think (someone correct me if I’m wrong) what people (gun banners; congress critters, etc.) mean is that occasionally there are private individuals who desire to sell a firearm for whatever reason and figures the best place to sell a gun is to go some place where people are buying guns. Private party transaction. This is not a “loop hole.” Private party transactions –in most states, not the SPRofK—private party sales are legal without involving a licensed by BATFE dealer (FFL).

Same thing as if you were to advertise in you local news paper (where applicable; legal; allowed, etc.).

Which brings us to UNLICENSED DEALERS. There is no such animal as an “unlicensed dealer.” If he doesn’t have a license, he ain’t a dealer; he is a private party type individual person who would like to unload –as it were—a firearm.

This is sorta like what one of my LE instructors told us about California not being a common law state: “If it ain’t writ, it ain’t law.” So, no license means he ain’t a dealer, only a person who is selling a gun.

Next, we have ASSAULT WEAPONS, or rather we don’t have assault weapons. There ain’t no such thing as an assault weapon, only guns that that some maroon has decided that he doesn’t like because it is black and looks evil (Evil Black Rifles or EBR) and has features that make it LOOK like a military style firearm. I DON’T EVEN THINK THERE IS ANY SUCH THING AS AN “Assault Rifle.”

Pop Quiz: Can anyone tell me what AR as in AR-15 means?

Frankly, I don’t understand why someone would be concerned about a bayonet lug on a rifle. I would love to hear of a single case where someone was injured or killed as a result of a drive-by bayoneting. I wonder if anyone has ever been killed with a bayonet fixed to a rifle outside of combat.

I could see that there might be a problem with being bayoneted if people were walking around with rifles with bayonets attached and stabbing people on the street. I’ll bet it would be tough to get out of a crazed bayoneter’s path. I just haven’t heard of there being a rash of bayonetings, attached to rifles or otherwise.

I recall reading that DiFi stated that EBR were designed to be fired from the hip to maximize the killing effectiveness or some such nonsense. Have you ever tried to even hold an AR-15 at the hip. The one feature that she said enabled one to do this, the “conspicuously protruding pistol grip” is the feature that makes this impractical. Perhaps if the rifle was full-auto and you had enough ammo so you could correct/adjust your fire, it might be possible.

I attended a sub-machine gun course in which the owner of the training facility demonstrated an Uzi, fired full-auto and rapidly swept back and forth across 4 or 5 targets until the gun ran dry. A couple of the targets didn’t receive a single hit. A couple had non-lethal hits and one target may have received a single lethal hit. Twenty rounds and possibly one lethal hit when the Uzi was fired more or less from the hip. Go figure.

I will stick with controlled, deliberate, aimed fire, thank you very much.

When I was with the PD in the 1970’s I carried a Smith & Wesson M-59. This is a 9mm, double action pistol with a magazine capacity of 13 rounds. During this time no one ever heard of a “high capacity magazine” or “assault weapon” for that matter.

So, for some reason, at some point in time, someone decided that I was more of a threat because I had 3 more rounds available before I had to reload? Actually, if my department had allowed it I would have carried my Colt Government Model .45 ACP semi-auto, with eight rounds (bigger is always better, don’t you know?).

So how about we use the terms “single stack” and “double stack” or “wide body” mags?

Here’s the kicker about the previous ban on standard magazines; They banned the manufacture and sales of mags that held more than 10 rounds but the ban didn’t require anyone to surrender existing mags. So, I kept my 13 and 14 round magazines for my Smith and my 30 round mags for my M1 Carbine. Kinda makes one wonder about the folks in charge, eh?

Of course I wonder about them anyway. I would like to see forced retirement of those nuts in Congress when they start showing obvious signs of dementia, Alzheimer’s, stupidity, irrationality, insanity or other mental disorders and extreme old age. Maybe they should be subjected to a background check before being allowed to take office or introduce legislation. We could use another supreme court just to take a look at some of the proposed legislation just to see if it passes a basic common sense test.

Speaking of common sense, I must say that I am in favor of COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS according to what I think is common sense. Here’s my criteria: If you are a bad guy and you get caught with a gun you go to prison for a very, very long time. Everyone else should be able to own whatever kind of firearm one desires.

This is not as odd as it may appear to some people. Consider this: in the State of Nevada, I can own any fully automatic firearm (machine gun or sub-machine gun) that I could afford to buy. Lots of people in the United States own full auto weapons. Fifty percent of all full auto weapons in the United States are owned by some government agency; the other fifty percent are owned by private individuals. Further, since 1934 only one crime has been committed with a privately owned machine gun and that person was a cop.

We just don’t see law-abiding people using legally owned machine guns in crimes.

I’m not talking about instances such as that North Hollywood bank robbery. Those people were criminals so they don’t count.

Someone please tell me what a GUN CRIME is? Why is a crime in which a gun is used to kill someone any gosh darn different from a crime in which a knife or car or hammer or pitchfork or crossbow is used to kill someone?

This is exactly what indicates to me that people are only interested in taking our guns away. Some nut can kill a half dozen people with a knife or a car and you never hear a word about banning and confiscating privately owned knives and cars.

The gun banners are not interested in stopping crime. They blame the gun, not the evil SOB who did the killing. They are not interested in keeping these crazy people in prison for the rest of their lives and don’t even think about executing the Adam Henry.

Oh, no, they want to take our guns away from us law-abiding people and leave us defenseless victims.

So, when O bama and the socialists in congress even whisper anything about GUN SHOW LOOPHOLES, UNLICENSED DEALERS, ASSAULT WEAPONS, HIGH CAPACITY MAGAZINES or COMMON SENSE GUN LAWS, tell them no, very loudly.

Buy more guns and ammo and 30 rounds mags. Write, call and email your legislator and tell them “NO, this far and no farther.”

Next up: let's repeal some of the 20000 plus existing gun laws.