40% of guns sales go without a background check. Really?

[ForeverPA]

With the Oregon shooting in the headlines, gun control is in the news again. The number getting thrown around is what I said in the title of this post. It generally goes unchallenged. How could it be true?

[Curmudgeon]

Sounds like a fairly reasonable number, although I don't know its origin. How could it not be true?

[ForeverPA]

Sounds like a fairly reasonable number, although I don't know its origin. How could it not be true?

And how do you defend it?

[nfafan]

Last I heard from our nightly Pravda, the shooter used a stolen rifle from an acquaintance.

I know that facts and logic mean nothing to gun controllers, but it was not a "sale"...

[hertz]

There really is no way to get a definite number on something like that. Private long gun transfers in PA and most other states do not require a transfer if both residents are in state. That's a lot of sales.

[Got Ammo?]

Obviously no way to verify the number, so anything is a guess.

Private HANDGUN sales in most states don't require a background check. Sites like vaguntrader.com have a lot of for sale ads posted each day, and obviously there's sales between friends, coworkers, relatives, etc.

[GunLawyer001]

Hard to prove, even harder to disprove. Like "unreported rapes" or "undiscovered crimes" or "total number of homeless people"*.
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* For some time, the media dutifully reported that there were 3 million homeless Americans. Turns out, there was no factual basis to this at all, the number was pulled out of the ass of a Lefty advocate, Mitch Snyder. Lately, they've massaged the bullshit and now claim that "up to 3.5 million Americans will experience homelessness at some point in a year."

The same media also accepted as fact that between 1 million and 5 million homeless people die every year in America, which runs from unlikely (total American deaths of all types are around 2.4-2.5 million) to impossible.

Never trust the Progressive media.

[ForeverPA]

Obviously no way to verify the number, so anything is a guess.

Private HANDGUN sales in most states don't require a background check. Sites like vaguntrader.com have a lot of for sale ads posted each day, and obviously there's sales between friends, coworkers, relatives, etc.

After arguing with anti-gunners that we are for only the law abiding citizens to own guns and that everyone must pass a background check, we get this. Not good.

[jerkin]

Hard to prove, even harder to disprove. Like "unreported rapes" or "undiscovered crimes" or "total number of homeless people"*.
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* For some time, the media dutifully reported that there were 3 million homeless Americans. Turns out, there was no factual basis to this at all, the number was pulled out of the ass of a Lefty advocate, Mitch Snyder. Lately, they've massaged the bullshit and now claim that "up to 3.5 million Americans will experience homelessness at some point in a year."

The same media also accepted as fact that between 1 million and 5 million homeless people die every year in America, which runs from unlikely (total American deaths of all types are around 2.4-2.5 million) to impossible.

Never trust the Progressive media.

Cool, so as long as I keep my house I'll be immortal.

[GunLawyer001]

Cool, so as long as I keep my house I'll be immortal.

Unfortunately, I've checked my Handbook of Progressive Truths, and home-owning gun owners have a 110% chance of being killed with their own guns several times per year.