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Jumping Frog wrote:This has only been the law since the Gun Control Act of 1968. It isn't exactly new.

Of course, the founders were spinning in their grave back then and haven't stopped yet.

Perhaps, but the active enforcement of this unconstitutional regulation is fairly recent. They just keep nibbling away at our rights and most people don't notice. The keep up their leftist propaganda and slowly people who *claim* to be pro-2nd-Amendment find themselves actually supporting infringements that people a few decades ago would have been up in arms about.

nyj wrote:Might as well just ship the gun if it has to go through an FFL. Save the drive.

Depending upon where in TX and where in NM, it might not be much of a drive.

If it was a relative or a close friend, I probably wouldn't think anything about it. If it was a stranger, I would be concerned that it might be a some entrapment plot by the Feds like they did with Randy Weaver.

Keith B wrote:A person may buy a long gun in another state, but it must be from a licensed dealer. You cannot buy a handgun in another state unless you have it transfered to a FFL in your state of residence.

If that is the case, I have to wonder how many of us have broken that one over the years. For example, say you grew up in one state, but live in another state. You still have family back in your former state and you are back there visiting relatives. One of your relatives mentioned that he has a particular firearm that he inherited from your grandfather or some other common relative, but he said that he doesn't hunt or shoot anymore and was thinking of selling it. So, you offer to buy it from him so that it can stay in the family even though you don't actually *need* that particular firearm. Or maybe it is just a friend that you are visiting and as he's showing you his gun collection, you notice one in the back of the safe, ask him about it, and he says that he never shoots it anymore and you like it offer to buy it from him.

With some of us, buying and selling firearms like this used to be no different than any other TOOL. The idea that the government could create regulations that could restrict who you could give or sell your tools to was a completely alien concept. What has happened to our society when people think that it is perfectly acceptable for the government to tell us who we can sell our private property to? I have to think that the Founding Fathers would be turning over in their graves if they knew what had become of their grand design. :(