They Just Don't Get It.

What are these people so ardently protesting?
I'll give you a hint!

Q: What do you call it when a guy (or gal) buys a firearm privately from another guy (or gal) in their home, driveway, on a country road, in a restaurant parking lot, etc.?
A: a completely legal “face to face” transaction.

Q: What do you call it when that exact same guy (or gal) buys that exact same firearm from the exact same other guy (or gal) in the exact same fashion in the parking lot of a swap meet or gun show?
A: A “Gun Show Loophole”!



Seriously.

The anti-gun lobbyists and the media have spun a completely legal action into some dark back alley connotation that most assuredly must only be happening among the most shady mobster-gangbanger types.
“Gun show loophole” is a misnomer wrought from fear. If two law abiding citizens can buy, sell, or trade firearms face to face one transaction at a time and strike up such an alarmist mind-set, can you just imagine what kind of panic sets in when they think about parking lots full of people doing exactly the same thing?
I’m sure it’s no accident that the term “loophole” was used, as it conjures the notion that it must some how be “skirting the law” or dishonest and underhanded in some way.

It really ticks me off. But you know what ticks me off even more? The fact that I personally have done nothing to stand in the way of legislators and media steam rolling my legal rights and my law abiding actions to the point of making me feel like a criminal for participating in completely LEGAL transactions. Until today. I decided I don’t have a right to complain if I’m just sitting on my butt doing nothing about it, so this morning I got involved! Yay me.