re: #155 bratwurst

Been meaning to ask where “gun show” loopholes fit into this in your opinion.

There’s no such thing as a “gun show” loophole. In states that allow private transfers between gun owners that don’t involve an FFL holder those transfers operate the same way wherever they occur. It doesn’t matter if it’s at a gun show or in your living room.

This is why California requires all transfers to go through an FFL holder, so that there’s a DROS performed and the buyer is run through the DOJ database to see if they’re allowed to possess a firearm. If you buy a gun from a vender at a CA gunshow you and the vender go out back where the local FFL’s set up shop and find one that will agree to do the transfer. The FFL then takes possession of the gun and you are only allowed to pick up your purchase 10 days later at the FFL’s normal place of business.