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So I was reading about this undercover operation that proved, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that crimes were being committed. The perps would even boast about it, while the disguised investigators caught them in the act.
Am I talking about ACORN? Nah, those phony "pimps" and "hoes" were reported to the police by their targets.
I'm talking, of course, about gun show sellers.
It's illegal to sell guns to anyone you don't believe could pass a background check. Regardless of how you feel about that, anyone who sells a gun to someone when there's reason to believe that the purchaser cannot legally own a gun is guilty of a crime.
But an astonishing 35 out of 47 sellers at gun shows investigated by the city of New York were willing to make such an illegal sale. Only 12 stayed within the law.
And that's a real problem. Per the article: "[T]he Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) reports that 30 percent of guns involved in federal illegal gun trafficking investigations are connected to gun shows."
Right now, it's legal to sell a gun at a gun show without running a background check, so long as you don't have any reason to believe the buyer can't pass such a check if one were run. With the vast majority of sellers willing to sell guns to criminals, should this loophole be closed?