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Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s (D) push to ban private gun sales was defeated in the Virginia Senate Courts of Justice Committee Monday morning.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Second Amendment supporters held a Monday morning rally in Capitol Square while Northam planned speak to gun control supporters mid-afternoon.
On January 10, 2018, Breitbart News reported that Northam was pushing a ban on private gun sales by seeking a requirement that all gun sales, retail or private, be performed via a background check. This would have required law-abiding Virginians to seek out a Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) to do a background check if a private citizen was selling a gun to a neighbor, a lifelong friend, or a co-worker.
Colorado already has a similar law and charges a fee every time a background check is performed. In the end, the fee is like a gun tax that raises the sale price for each gun sold without offering any substantial hindrance to high profile attacks in return. High profile attackers almost always acquire their guns via background checks, which is easy to do if one has avoided accumulating a criminal history.
Background checks look backward, as the name suggests, and where there is no criminal history there is no reason to prevent a gun sale. Because of this, the attackers who struck the Texas church (November 5, 2017), Las Vegas concert (October 1, 2017), Orlando Pulse (June 12, 2016), Alexandria baseball practice (June 14, 2017), Aurora movie theater (July 20, 2012), and Virginia Tech (April 16, 2007) all passed background checks for their guns.
Northam’s push to “allow localities to ban firearms at permitted events” was also defeated in committee.
Northam referred to the legislative package banning private gun sales as “nonpartisan” and “commonsense,” but he did not explain why punishing law-abiding, private gun sellers and average Americans is sensible in any way. After all, private gun sales have been the law of the land since the Second Amendment was ratified in 1791. Why would banning such sales suddenly be evidence of commonsense?
Moreover, even the government has demonstrated that large swaths of the left’s private gun sale “loophole” are actually non-existent. A Government Accountability Office (GAO)report shows that federal agents spent two and a half years impersonating prohibited buyers who were trying to skirt the system and buy guns privately online. They made 72 attempts to buy guns and failed 72 times.
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