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No. That wouldn't happen in a gun store.
You'd have to go to a gun show.
Edit: a gun show is like comic con, only for guns.
I mean Terminator 1 takes place in 1984. As far a quick search goes, there were no background checks, no assault weapon ban, no waiting period, ..etc
I think you could still buy machine guns. No phased plasma rifles though.
Hey pal, only what you see here.
What, not even one in the 40-watt range?
It's really difficult to buy them even now.
The process is quite simple. It's just the prices...
I mean you can still buy them with a tax stamp if they're made before '86, but you're going to pay a lot and it'll take some time to transfer. I think at the time that you could just walk into a gun store and buy a new Uzi.
Background checks started in '68, they didn't become instant until like '93 because internet but they still existed, I think it was by phone back then. The rest of that isn't around now either except for some states, the national AWB expired 21yr ago, and there's never been national waiting periods.
They may have existed and some states imposed them but they weren't required federally until the Brady bill in '93 .
There was a 5 day waiting period required nationally between when the Brady bill was first enacted in '93 and when the national instant criminal background check system came online in '98
Huh no shit TIL about that waiting period, thanks! I can't look it up until later (at work, can fire off a message but not do research y'know) but would you happen to know how long it lasted?
Though the questionnaires in the 60s were largely ineffective and took time, unless I am mistaken they were stored by the FBI until the ATF started existing in the early 70s, but yes "NICs" wasn't until "I" was possible as I mentioned.
Between '94 and '98, after they mandated the background checks but before they had the infrastructure to do instant background checks.
Thanks!
The NFA existed.
Private sales are private sales. Has nothing to do with gun shows, that shit is just ignorance from anti-2a groups/people. The pro2a people have been asking for access to the NICS for years. Even if we had to pay $10 for a BG check to come back as clear or not, but they don't want that because it takes away from their wedge issue.
Who is "they" in this case?
Republicans and Democrats. They both require wedge issues to keep us divided and easily steered.
Yep. Republicans don't give a fuck about gun rights, they just use it as a wedge issue. The same for the dems on abortion, they could have solidified roe into law a good number of times now, but they didn't because it's a wedge issue that got votes. Even RBG said the roe was a weak verdict to be holding up abortion rights.
even as a foreigner, it is clear to me that gun-wary Americans tend not to be anti-2a, but want background checks and gun limits. Maybe politicians fit your narrative, especially Democrats, but if you are talking about citizens you are likely straw-manning.
The point is that private sellers have been asking to access NICS (the background check system) but politicians, who are in charge of giving that access through laws, have not allowed it. It is not "strawmanning" to be talking about the people with the actual ability to provide the access.
It's required in Illinois to use a private seller portal for private sales through the state police site. It does some kind of check and it's free to use.
That's awesome, does it do the national database? That's one of the downfalls I've read about. Local BGCs end up being just local, so someone can just hop the state line and then it's pointless. Every gun owner I've ever talked to has wanted access to the NICS, we want to know who we're selling to. Most of the people I talk with won't sell unless the person buying has a CCW.
I'm not exactly sure if it does NICS specifically. The portal really just checks to see if they have a valid FOID (firearm owner ID, an Illinois special) card, but the foid card is linked to other data bases. I'm not super familiar with all the specifics. Relevant links:
https://verify.ispfsb.com/Public/Verification.aspx
https://isp.illinois.gov/Media/CompletePressRelease/679
What would not be like that? Nidal Hasan did it pretty much like that prior to his 2009 Fort Hood shooting?
Except Comic Con is rare, and they don't have to take down their "gun show this weekend!" signs here in Iowa because that's every weekend, or so it seems.
Agreed though. I was actually worried about what maga might do if Harris won, so I made my first purchases before the election. I had to provide ID, enter some personal identifiers into a website and be approved by a federal agency. It took an extra 30 minutes or so.
I live next to fairgrounds. Every Saturday: Gun and Knife Show.
But I also remember working at a marina and where I saw far more transactions take place between two parked vehicles than anything that requires paperwork.
So people dress up as sexy guns?
They cosplay as tough guys.