Popular Progressive Talking Point: Background Checks For Ammunition Purchases
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 8 months ago
From a reader, news from Virginia.
On March 9, a surveillance camera captured four people walking into a gun store and buying bullets.
Though one of the men in the group was ineligible to buy a gun — and had been previously convicted of making a false statement on a firearm consent form — he made the purchase without a hitch.
Police took the video footage from the gun store in the course of investigating a homicide, according to search warrants filed in Danville Circuit Court.
Days after seeing the video, police found the man riding in a Buick with a Glock 45 tucked under his seat — a round in the chamber — and a magazine on him. Court records show police arrested and charged him with possessing a gun as a non-violent felon, carrying a concealed weapon and felonious possession of ammunition.
Though federal and state laws prohibited him from possessing ammo, there were no background checks required to buy it, as there are when purchasing a gun at a store.
In fact there is no background-check infrastructure in the state to stop a felon from purchasing ammo, Virginia State Police public relations manager Corinne Geller said.
The state police handles background checks for firearms purchases, referring applications to the Virginia Firearms Transaction Center in Richmond. The center combs through four state databases and one national database maintained by the FBI to check a buyer’s criminal history, mental health history, protective orders and other disqualifying factors when they go to buy a gun.
But a felon buying ammunition, she noted, does not raise any flags.
Lori Haas, Virginia state director for Washington, D.C.-based The Coalition and Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, said that background checks are valuable tools to prevent guns from falling into the wrong hands. Exempting ammo from background checks, she said, does not make horse-sense; why buy ammunition if not to use in a gun.
But of course. Instead of reversing the unconstitutional gun sales background checks, since they don’t stop crime, just expand it to ammunition as well. When a process fails, double-down on it, the progressive way.
They are eventually going to implement a new AWB, and they will eventually come after ammunition too. Without ammunition, a gun is a paperweight. Get it now while you can. Otherwise, red flag laws may sweep you into their net.
By the way, I fear that the good folks of Virginia are going to fall victim to the progressives in Northern Virginia, just as North Carolina has to Mecklenburg and Wake Counties.
On April 3, 2019 at 11:28 am, Frank Clarke said:
Here in Pinellas County, Florida, we even have a sheriff who thinks BGCs for ammunition purchases is a common-sense precaution.
On April 3, 2019 at 1:25 pm, ExpatNJ said:
Nazi Jerzey beat them to it, years go, by miles:
“to purchase/acquire any handgun ammo in New Jersey, transferee must possess Firearms Purchaser Identification Card, or permit to purchase or permit to carry handgun. Retail sellers required to maintain permanent record of ammo disposition. Records must contain date of transaction, name of manufacturer, caliber/gauge, quantity, name/address/DOB of purchaser, identification used to establish identity of purchaser. Sellers must record sales/dispositions of handgun ammo and ammo that may be interchangeable between rifles and handguns ” [abridged]
https://lawcenter.giffords.org/ammunition-regulation-in-new-jersey/
IOW, the ammo-purchasers were already previously “background checked”.
For a more info about the tyranny in NJ:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_Jersey
I am SOOOOOO glad I left (expatriated from) that sh!hhole state.
Thank you for the rant, Capn.
NOTE: This post is NOT legal advice; you have to PAY for that …
On April 3, 2019 at 6:28 pm, SGT.BAG said:
585 shopping days left. These are the good old days.
On April 4, 2019 at 5:35 pm, scott s. said:
We had bills in play for a couple years (not recently though) to require ammo purchaser to provide a gun registration record for a firearm in the caliber of ammo to be purchased, along with transaction logging. Beat those down.