What is strange about the idea that consumers would be more willing to put their trust in sellers who are meeting legal requirements instead of those who ignore them? If you walk up to two tables at a flea market and one tells you the law requires a background check and other tells you they don't bother with that because they don't believe it can be enforce, which one of them are you more likely to suspect might be selling you a gun with a dirty past?

#31 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE AT 2024-04-12 02:53 PM | FLAG:

Your second guy is already illegal by ATF standards. He's in the business of selling firearms but has no license.

are you going to be more likely to trust a private seller who performs the check or one who does not?

#26 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE AT 2024-04-12 01:28 PM | REPLY

Your logic is strange. The background check requirement isn't really about the seller. It's about the buyer (and straw purchasers). Anyways I think my state should require them in most situations, but they don't. Biden can't fix that for me.

#23 | POSTED BY JOHNNY_HOTSAUCE AT 2024-04-12 12:43 PM | FLAG:

Is it a question for the courts when we already know the answer? Besides the stacked deck, no admin seeking gun control measures have ever issued this EO because it doesn't survive any legal review. Federal power has limits.

Internet sales that cross state lines already require a background check.

Going to another state and buying a firearm, that already must be done through FFL dealers and requires a background check.

Not performing a background check on a private sale in a state that doesn't require it does not imply any illegal activity whatsoever.

I doubt it qualifies are strictly intrastate.

#20 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2024-04-12 11:32 AM | FLAG:

Interstate transactions already require background checks.

The "loophole" is intrastate, and only intrastate, transactions.

Snoofy with the economic expertise of somebody that can't do minimum payment calculations.

They don't typically drive big battery cars. Those are only for the very rich. EU countries tend to have punitive horsepower taxes so the small battery EVs are what sell.

None apply

#14 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT AT 2024-04-12 01:47 AM | FLAG:

We're about to see a bunch of legal arguments that it does.

But can Biden unilaterally require background checks on intrastate commerce? Probably not. That's a power reserved to the state, no matter how retarded the state.

I'be been to three gun shows to look around asd see wht they were like

#5 | POSTED BY MSGT AT 2024-04-11 02:29 PM | FLAG:

I have a much larger sampling of them attended and been specifically to buy and sell a few modern, but mostly historical, firearms.

You're right that everybody with a table selling guns has a FFL.

But if you don't see the few people walking through the show with a shouldered firearm and a FOR SALE sign on it, you haven't been to enough shows. Yes, of course it's not limited to shows, and yes there are idiots who think it's a gun show thing and not private sale doctrine that applies everywhere. Does it really matter? There's a reasonable line of when to do background checks for private sales, and selling guns to random people should definitely pass through an FFL vendor that can perform the check.

European boots on the ground would all the boots necessary.
#12 | POSTED BY CORKY AT 2024-04-11 12:14 PM | REPLY

Unfortunately that trial balloon turned out to be lead in the EU.

On the positive side, Ukraine after major delays has passed a law to lower the draft age from 27 to 25, but Zelensky hasn't signed it yet. That could theoretically bring 500k conscripts into the fight on Ukraine's side.

So well below inflation when adjusted for debt costs.

Disney would probably settle, but Carano is famously difficult to do business with if you believe the Trumper Dana White.

Never bothered to look up the exceptions to At Will Employment in California?

"Disney also cited two Supreme Court cases " Boy Scouts of America v. Dale and Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston " in which the court held that organizations could not be compelled to associate with supporters of gay rights."

The Boy Scouts defense? Dang.

"Ukraine could swiftly end the war just by making massive territorial concessions."

They're going to slowly end the war and end up making massive territorial concessions.

Raise your hand if you are for boots on the ground in Ukraine.

They are pretty fast! What's the fastest land animal in the world? An Ethiopian chicken being chased by an Ethiopian.
The second fastest? An Ethiopian chasing a bread truck!
Bonus Ethiopian joke ... How do you spell Ethiopian in Ethiopia?
E-T-O-P-A
(Lord forgive me and bless the hobbits in Flores.)

#54 | POSTED BY DONNERBOY AT 2024-04-10 12:03 PM | FLAG:

That's fast, but it's not Outrun-The-Radio fast.

Except 2.5-3% is the norm.

#9 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2024-04-10 12:52 PM | FLAG:

That's the point of the studies. That's the norm when rates are low. Rates are not low. New metrics have to capture the lending rates to reconcile people's view of inflation vs government metrics.

#19 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-10 01:05 PM | FLAG:

So question still stands. When did film production decide to waive individual gun safety rules in favor of armorers as an intermediary?

You must've missed that "play" part.
Frankly, if I were doing a sci-fi flick, and was handed a toy laser gun complete with light and sound effects, the first thing I'd do is shoot a fellow actor in jest.

#17 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-10 01:00 PM | REPLY

No, I pointed out you're playing with guns a lot. A plastic ray gun doesn't quite compare to a LeMat revolver though. Don't point the first one at police. Don't point the second one at anybody.

There's a word for it. It's called Bipartisanship.

Sometimes it happened and still happens. Even with Trump in office.

Great current example, Ukraine aid when people thought Ukraine could win. Bipartisanship in action.

Frankly I'll take the second incident in decades method

#11 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-10 11:49 AM | FLAG:

Now you've got me curious about the history of the protocol. In basic firearm safety, you always assume it's loaded and live at all times. Super simple. Rule #1.

How did this universal safety rule get thrown out? Did an extra at some point try to put in real bullets?

He wasn't an extra, he was a lead actor with decades of experience and self-proclaimed expert.

Small irony though, I can cast you a bunch of extras that can tell if a bullet is real or not and do a better job than that armorer and Baldwin.

They're reporting on academic studies trying to find the disconnect, but whatever you need to fit the narrative in your head.

Turns out measuring Inflation is much like measuring Poverty. There's the Official metric. Then there's the real metric, the SPM. Unfortunately our government hasn't caught up to Inflation like Poverty to implement a real metric.

Still, that's no reason to expect every actor hired to know more than the experts on the set.
Baldwin the actor is innocent; Baldwin the producer may be guilty.

#7 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-10 11:22 AM | FLAG:

Maybe? If you put "Expert at Gunplay" on your resume, and you're in your mid-60s, and have been toting guns in movies since at least 1990 (hunt for red october), and you're also the producer, it's not unreasonable to expect you to know more than a 24 year old.

A movie set is a magnitude safer than every urban area in America.

#6 | POSTED BY DANFORTH AT 2024-04-10 11:09 AM | FLAG:

It's not Urban Area America. It's more like a gun range where people actively choose to stand in front of guns. Death and injuries are the price of playtime, even if you can make it mostly safe most of the time. Sometimes when accidents still happen people get lucky, like Tom Sizemore being a bad shot and missing the extra in Saving Private Ryan. Would have been no walking away from a .30-06 to the chest. Judging from the list of firearm accidents on TV sets, which are pretty numerous but not fatal, mostly you get powder burns in the face like filming of the John Wick movies. Not unlike the actors who do the Human Chess Matches at Ren Faires. Very few of them are willing to stand in front of another actor and eat those blazingly hot black powder flecks you get sprayed with.