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Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/2/2021)
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"If you buy a gun from a federal firearms licensee like Academy or Joe’s Gun Shop, their license requires them to run a background check on you," she says. "But private sales are not regulated at all, you and I could sell guns to each other and there’s no background check required. It's a huge loophole."
They really like that term, "loophole," don't they?
THERE IS NO LOOPHOLE.
The Constitution delegates to Congress the power to regulate commerce. Private sales are not commerce, and there is no enumerated federal authority to regulate them.
The answer to the question, whether anybody likes it or not, is "NO. You can't do that." |
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[The American Colonies were] all democratic governments, where the power is in the hands of the people and where there is not the least difficulty or jealousy about putting arms into the hands of every man in the country. [European countries should not] be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defence of their rights and liberties and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them. — George Mason, "Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company" in The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland (Chapel Hill, 1970). |
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