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steveincowtown wrote:

baldeagle wrote:I will submit this to all four Senators and Senators Cornyn and Cruz as soon as I finish posting this.

I have no problem with requiring background checks for private sellers at gun shows so long as the presentation of a CHL will suffice as proof of having already passed one.

Could you provide an explanation as to why the geographical location of a background check on the private sale of anything makes it any more or less reasonable?

I think the argument is that renting a booth and advertising "no background checks" at a gun show is kinda really a business even if it doesn't meet the ATF's definition, whereas random private sales do not. I know that there are random private sales that happen to be at gun shows... Don't have an answer for that, other than to say this is why the exact way a law is worded is important. "All persons or businesses renting booths at a gun show must run NICS checks" and "all sellers at a gun show must run NICS checks", for example, are essentially identical to someone who isn't familiar with gun shows (actually, they might actually be identical depending on how "sellers" is defined).