January 17, 2013
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which became operational in 1998, verifies that a person seeking to buy a firearm from a gun dealer is not prohibited from doing so by federal or state law. The National Rifle Association supported its establishment. Gun control supporters opposed NICS, preferring to require a gun purchaser to wait several days after stating the desire to buy a gun, before receiving it from a firearm dealer.
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June 28, 2010
Gun shows are again under attack. And this time, the attackers have a nearly limitless war chest with which to press the battle. Funding and leading the attack is Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City. This spring, Bloomberg launched a national advertising campaign against gun shows, with full-page newspaper ads demanding that senators co-sponsor the anti-gun show bill, S. 843. The lead sponsor of that bill is Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J.
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April 26, 2010
During April 2010, television ads paid for by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control advocacy group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns (MAIG), hit the airwaves in selected areas. The ads say, “The Columbine school massacre. The killers got their guns because of a gap in the law, called the ‘gun show loophole’. . . . Close the ‘gun show loophole.’”
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January 21, 2010
The War on Gun Shows Mayor Bloomberg`s new "study" promotes anti-gunners` real goals: reducing gun sales and registering guns.
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October 1, 2009
Recent attacks on American gun shows are not about law enforcement or punishing the guilty, they are about exploiting a lack of knowledge on the part of the general public and paving the way for universal firearm registration ... and, if history is anything to go by, confiscation.
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June 8, 2009
Sen. Frank Lautenberg has once again introduced legislation to regulate gun shows. And as before, it calls for massive new government powers to register gun show customers, register gun owners, retain information on gun sales that take place at gun shows, heavily tax both gun collectors and gun sales, and require gun show promoters to police gun show customers, as if they were agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
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May 11, 2009
The Castle gun show bill (H.R. 2324) shares many unacceptable provisions with S. 843, but in key areas goes even further. Despite changes from the Lautenberg juvenile justice amendment of 1999 that it is based on, this bill fails to address gun owners` most significant concerns--and in several areas is even more restrictive than Lautengberg`s current bill, S. 843.
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April 27, 2009
As drug-related violence soars on the border, some on both sides are all too ready to blame the Second Amendment.
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November 7, 2008
Gun shows are large, public events that for many decades have been held in convention centers and banquet halls, attended by gun enthusiasts, hunters, target shooters, law enforcement and military personnel, and their families. Under federal law, firearm dealers—persons engaged in the business of selling firearms for profit on a regular basis—are required to conduct background checks on anyone to whom they sell any firearm, regardless of where the sale takes place. Federal law also provides that a person who is not a dealer may sell a firearm from his personal collection without conducting a check.
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May 25, 2006
H.R. 1384, introduced by Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.), would remove several antiquated and unnecessary restrictions imposed on interstate firearms business since 1968.
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July 28, 2004
John Edwards' four years in the Senate are characterized primarily by poor attendance, but the votes he has cast are far closer to the Massachusetts liberal benchmark set by John Kerry than to views held by North Carolina voters.
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March 2, 2004
NRA Statement on S. 1805 from Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President, and Chris W. Cox, NRA`s Chief Lobbyist
In a move to exploit meaningful legislation designed to preserve...
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January 21, 2004
Gun Shows, a piece of Americana. Like boat shows, car shows and art shows, gun shows are large events open to the public. Held in convention centers and similar facilities, they attract a broad range of people with an interest in guns, including collectors, hunters, target shooters, police officers and military personnel.
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July 16, 2001
James L. Pate explains that AGS is an anti-gun group trying to present itself as a "moderate" alternative in the debate over firearms.
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February 2, 2000
Anti-gunners misrepresent BATF firearm traces to advance their gun prohibition agenda.
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January 27, 2000
By the Independence Institute`s David B. Kopel. "Close the gun show loophole" demanded Handgun Control, Inc. But many Democrats didn`t want a law as much as they wanted a campaign issue for the 2000 elections.
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July 16, 1999
Kopel, of the Independence Institute, explains what gun shows are -- and aren`t -- and why anti-gun activists are demanding restrictions designed to put gun shows out of business.
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