60 Minutes and their anti gun Nazism
60 Minutes propaganda. Gun Show loophole. Virginia law states something to the effect of private gun sales need not do a background check. There are a lot of myths about this. If I live in Virginia and sell a firearm to a private citizen and if I do not notify the police it is on me if something happens. If the firearm is used in a crime and found, I have to then prove to the police that it is no longer mine. I.E. I’m guilty until proven innocent. If the gun is stolen or lost from the person who bought it they can not prove it is theirs.
Personally I sold one of my pistol’s to my father. My parent’s live in a completely different state from me. Before I allowed my parent to even take control yet alone leave with it, we went to my local police department and filed a change of ownership for it. I do not believe my parents would commit a crime with it. However if it were stolen they could not prove it was theirs. Again also if said stolen gun was used in a crime it comes back to me.
As far as we are concerned any firearm that is sold privately, and no change of ownership is filed, it was stolen to begin with. Any law abiding citizen who purchases a firearm without a change of ownership is a fool and should not own a gun. If you go to a store and buy a shotgun, riffle, 223 riffle, or anything like that, you must fill out paperwork for at least the transfer of ownership to then be filled with the state and the feds.
Back to the point. While yes there are states that do not require private gun sales to file paperwork. All that can come from it is trouble. Again we are sure there some,a small amount, of private sales that are legitimate. We are not stupid enough to believe otherwise. However prier to 1934 there no requirements to do so. So we say this is a good thing. As always an armed society is a polite society.
