{"id":33257,"date":"2013-04-18T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T15:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/a-gun-show-that-never-ends.html"},"modified":"2013-04-19T08:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-04-19T14:24:14","slug":"a-gun-show-that-never-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/18\/a-gun-show-that-never-ends.html","title":{"rendered":""A Gun Show That Never Ends""},"content":{"rendered":"
On the one hand, it's certainly true that further regulating gun sales — e.g., mandating that all such transactions have a background check done with them — will never prevent all illegal gun transactions. On the other hand, right now the loopholes allow any felon to easily (albeit illegally) get a gun, with only the felon at risk; perhaps putting the seller<\/i> at risk might make it a wee bit more difficult for guns to get into the wrong hands. Which, frankly, seems worth it to me (if not to quite enough Senators).<\/div>\n

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\n A Times examination found that unlicensed sellers advertise scores of weapons on free classified ads Web sites where people legally barred from gun ownership can buy them.\n <\/p>\n

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On the one hand, it's certainly true that further regulating gun sales — e.g., mandating that all such transactions have a background check done with them — will never prevent all illegal gun transactions. On the other hand, right now the loopholes allow any felon to easily (albeit illegally) get a gun, with only the … Continue reading “"A Gun Show That Never Ends"”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31918,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/26\/reasonable-steps-toward-gun-control.html","url_meta":{"origin":33257,"position":0},"title":"Reasonable steps toward gun control","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Dec-12 10:16pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Again, no single action will safeguard everyone. 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