Anti-Second Amendment feeling among FFL holders?

[traderdan]

Sunday, on the backroads near Shelbyville, I noticed that a gun shop was open that I had passed several times in the early morning hours. I needed some 7.62x 25 and was pleasantly surprised to be able to purchase a box in that shop. By way of conversation, I mentioned doing some trading at a outdoor market here in Indiana...and was soon informed by the owner, that all firearms sales should be required to pass through an FFL dealer. I asked the gentleman to clarify...Should I be able to sell to my son? He grudgingly admitted that sales should be allowed in immediate families. Is this a common feeling among FFL holders?

 

[JettaKnight]

Greed is a good motivator...

 

[eldirector]

Is this a common feeling among FFL holders?

Who wouldn't want $20 for a few minutes of work - hundreds or thousands of times per year.

 

[mrjarrell]

Just another rent seeker looking to line his pockets.

 

[traderdan]

I guess that probably is his way of thinking...but he seemed to believe that the background check truly saved many lives.

 

[HoughMade]

They may. So?

I mean, probably not, but what if they would save lives?

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Mr. J nailed it. Rent seeking behavior=>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent

I guess that probably is his way of thinking...but he seemed to believe that the background check truly saved many lives.

Rationalization=>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationalization_(psychology)

Did you ask him how well Indiana's UBC worked? And if "background checks" works so well why did Indiana end its UBC in 1998? What are crimes rates today vs. the 1990s?

 

[LPMan59]

Just like there are plenty of people who don't want the nfa repealed or opened up. They'd lose their aces on the tens of thousands of dollars spent for a single m16.

 

[RustyHornet]

Think of the children!!!!

 

[MarkC]

Seems like these people are not so much anti-Second Amendment as their are pro-self-interest. But I guess that is the nature of rent-seeking.

It is infuriating when one of these individuals who is making money solely because of the existence of a government program becomes a "true believer" in the value and innate goodness of the program, despite the greater good.

 

[junk]

share with us which FFL it was

 

[Trigger Time]

not everyone is on the same side on the issues.

 

[junk]

so ???/

 

[Expat]

I have heard the same attitude from other shop owners.

 

[AmmoManAaron]

Sunday, on the backroads near Shelbyville, I noticed that a gun shop was open that I had passed several times in the early morning hours. I needed some 7.62x 25 and was pleasantly surprised to be able to purchase a box in that shop. By way of conversation, I mentioned doing some trading at a outdoor market here in Indiana...and was soon informed by the owner, that all firearms sales should be required to pass through an FFL dealer. I asked the gentleman to clarify...Should I be able to sell to my son? He grudgingly admitted that sales should be allowed in immediate families. Is this a common feeling among FFL holders?

Please out the FFL holder so I can make sure never to patronize their business. Guy is self-centered and puts $$$ above principle.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Is this a common feeling among FFL holders?

Probably more common among FFL holders and gun owners than we would like to think about.

 

[GIJEW]

No where near as hypocritical as don davis having a televised demonstration, burning&burying a few chinese kalashnikovs, ranting about US gun laws and then selling the rest saying "I don't make the laws".

Damn, that was faint praise. Can anybody h e a r it?

 

[canterbc]

Who wouldn't want $20 for a few minutes of work - hundreds or thousands of times per year.

If it was the law that a private sale had to go through a FFL, I'd venture a guess that the $20 may go up a bit. You are right though, 5-10 minutes to do the background check and 2 minutes to log it in the book.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Sunday, on the backroads near Shelbyville, I noticed that a gun shop was open that I had passed several times in the early morning hours. I needed some 7.62x 25 and was pleasantly surprised to be able to purchase a box in that shop. By way of conversation, I mentioned doing some trading at a outdoor market here in Indiana...and was soon informed by the owner, that all firearms sales should be required to pass through an FFL dealer. I asked the gentleman to clarify...Should I be able to sell to my son? He grudgingly admitted that sales should be allowed in immediate families. Is this a common feeling among FFL holders?

Common to people owning businesses and wanting to make a profit. Having a FFL means little in this instance. Find me the serious businessman that wouldn't enjoy having monopoly on the market... I doubt you will.

 

[A 7.62 Exodus]

As a Shelbyville resident, please share the FFL holder. I have a feeling I know who, but I just want to be sure.