gun show loophole

More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws

by John R. Lott  · 15 May 2010  · 456pp  · 185,658 words

(whether there are state bans when the federal ban is not enforced), background checks on the private transfer of guns (essentially “closing” the so-called gun show loophole), the Castle Doctrine (which absolves people of having to retreat when they are being threatened with deadly force), one-gun-a-month rules, and bans

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in the near future. Shortly after the November 2008 election, Barack Obama’s transition Web site noted that Obama and Joe Biden “support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country A D E C A D E L AT E R | 255 childproof. They also support making the federal

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more supportive of an adverse effect of assault weapons bans on murder and robbery rates. Gun Show Regulations Despite the impression created by the term gun show “loophole,” there are no different rules for buying a gun at a gun show than anywhere else.202 Gun-control groups, such as Third Way (formerly

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loophole, but interestingly, prior to 2000, only three of these states had laws that even mentioned gun shows. So how can a state close a gun show loophole if the laws didn’t even mention the term “gun show”? The issue is really private handgun transfers. What usually constitutes “closing the loophole” is

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F-test. by private individuals—such as those occurring at gun shows—has been left to the states (see table 10.11). The theory linking “gun show loopholes” and crime is fairly straightforward. To the extent that background checks on private transfers prevent criminals from getting guns, crime rates will be reduced. But

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within twenty-five miles of the gun show.207 If their result is correct, the reduction in gun shows that I find from closing the gun show loophole may explain why closing the loophole could increase murder and robbery rates. Closing down gun shows is more likely to deprive law-abiding citizens of

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a relatively inexpensive source of guns than to prevent criminals from getting guns. The results in table 10.12 imply little impact from closing the gun show loophole. While murder and robbery rates appear to rise, neither increase is statistically significant. Nor is the change in aggravated assaults significant. Although rape is reduced

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Crime Reports don’t even list how many rapes are committed with guns. What is probably most clear from this result is that closing the gun show loophole does not reduce defensive gun uses that stop rapes. Castle Laws Fourteen states adopted Castle Laws in just 2006 alone. It is hard to think

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D E C A D E L AT E R | 331 Table 10.12 The impact of “closing” the gun show loophole on violent crime rates Change in the average crime rate after the gun show loophole is closed (%) Murder Rape Robbery Aggravated assault 2% –3.0%*** 3.0% –2.1% Note: Examining the before-and

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Americans, 225; used for hunting, 389n9 guns, inexpensive. See “Saturday night specials” gun sales, 38, 127, 166 Guns and Ammo magazine, 297–98, 364–65 gun show loophole, 254, 327–30, 331t gun shows, 237, 330; regulations, 236, 326, 330, 334 ”halo” effect, 165–66 Hamilton, Earl, 395n41 Handgun Control Inc., 126–27

Columbine

by Dave Cullen  · 3 Mar 2010  · 519pp  · 142,851 words

bills in the Colorado legislature to limit access to guns for minors and criminals. Prospects looked good, especially for the flagship proposal to close the gun-show loophole. It was narrowly defeated in February. A similar measure bogged down in Congress. So a week before the anniversary, President Clinton returned to Denver to

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Colorado ballot initiative. It required 62,438 signatures. They gathered nearly twice that many. The measure would pass by a two-to-one margin. The gun show loophole was closed in Colorado. It was defeated in Congress. No significant national gun-control legislation was enacted in response to Columbine. The season ended well

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8, 2000. “Colorado Kills Gun Laws.” Report by Vince Gonzales. CBS News, February 17, 2000. Ferullo, Michael. “Clinton Implores Colorado Voters to Take Action on Gun Show Loophole.” CNN.com, April 12, 2000. Hahn, Robert A., Oleg O. Bilukha, Alex Crosby, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Akiva Liberman, Eve K. Moscicki, Susan Snyder, Farris Tuma

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2, 1999. http://www.salon.com/news/lfeature/1999/05/02/nra/index.html. Weller, Robert. “Colorado Supreme Court Clears Way for Vote on Closing Gun Show Loophole.” Associated Press, Denver, CO, July 3, 2000. MISCELLANEOUS Fragar, Russell. “Church on Fire.” Hillsong Publishing, 1997. Garbarino, James, and Claire Bedard. Parents Under Siege: Why

Parkland: Birth of a Movement

by Dave Cullen  · 12 Feb 2019  · 368pp  · 108,222 words

of hope. Polls indicated huge majorities favoring several gun reforms, but most of us went silent about them. Even raising the possibility of closing the gun show loophole or fixing the background-check system drew eye rolls and jabs about political naivete. A new assault weapons ban, or limiting large-capacity magazines, ideas

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as the audience drifted out. Mauser had lamented that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had gotten three of their four guns through the so-called gun show loophole. For a year, legislators failed to close that loophole, even in Colorado in the wake of the tragedy. Finally Mauser helped lead an effort to

The Way of the Gun: A Bloody Journey Into the World of Firearms

by Iain Overton  · 15 Apr 2015  · 436pp  · 125,809 words

gone to South Florida gun shows to buy guns to smuggle back into Northern Ireland.67 Even an Al Qaeda spokesman has remarked on the gun show loophole, encouraging American jihadists to ‘go down to a gun show at the local convention center and come away with a fully automatic assault rifle, without

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-challenged-gun-control-gun-foes-use-terror-issue-push-for-stricter-laws.html 68. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/closing-the-terror-gap-and-the-gun-show-loophole/2011/06/06/AGTKubKH_story.html. Perhaps the most notable non-international case, though, was the Columbine High School massacre. The two perpetrators bought two

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

by Jeffrey Toobin  · 1 May 2023  · 357pp  · 130,117 words

record and report all sales, but private dealers like McVeigh could buy and sell without any reporting to the government. (This was known as the “gun show loophole”; it still exists.) The exhibitors sold new, used, and antique firearms, ammunition, shooting supplies, knives, scopes, clips, reloading supplies, holsters, carry cases, hunting gear, concealment

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, 87, 95–96, 208, 227, 295, 299, 351, 357, 358, 365, 368, 371 see also assault weapons, 1994 bill banning; National Rifle Association; Second Amendment gun show loophole, 86 gun shows, gun show circuit, 9, 86–87 gun safety laws and, 228 McVeigh at, 9, 66–67, 87, 95, 96–97, 105, 113

Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free

by Cody Wilson  · 10 Oct 2016  · 246pp  · 70,404 words

guns while their blissfully unaware parents think their young ’uns are playing on the computer. A prohibitionist is quoted as calling the Internet a permanent “gun show loophole.” And as expected, the article reproduced one of the more provocative of my public statements. From the original Wiki Weapon video: What’s great about

Against the Web: A Cosmopolitan Answer to the New Right

by Michael Brooks  · 23 Apr 2020  · 88pp  · 26,706 words

ways I’ll explore as the book goes on, but he has conventionally liberal views on domestic policy issues ranging from abortion to closing the gun show loophole. He supported Hillary Clinton against Donald Trump in the 2016 election. And where Ben Shapiro naively believes that God Himself shares his attitudes toward women

Assassination Vacation

by Sarah Vowell  · 28 Mar 2005  · 208pp  · 69,863 words

on their mailing list, and the most impressive, lovable thing about them is their rage. The last mailing I got, seeking help to close the gun show loophole laws that allow terrorists and criminals to purchase all the firearms they want as long as it’s at folding tables set up at fairgrounds

Tomorrow's Capitalist: My Search for the Soul of Business

by Alan Murray  · 15 Dec 2022  · 263pp  · 77,786 words

mental health information and previous interactions with the law. Ensure a complete universal database of those banned from buying firearms. Close the private sale and gun show loophole that waives the necessity of background checks.11 In spite of extremely heavy backfire from the NRA, customers, and pro-gun legislators, Stack held his

Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy

by Jennifer Carlson  · 2 May 2023  · 279pp  · 100,877 words

a Trump 2020 poster here, I got all kinds of shit here! This kid says, “Oh I need a gun! I want to use the gun show loophole!” I had to stop him—he left out of here almost crying. I am very confident that I converted him to grow up in the

Giving the Devil His Due: Reflections of a Scientific Humanist

by Michael Shermer  · 8 Apr 2020  · 677pp  · 121,255 words

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard  · 15 Mar 2006