• Heresy_generator
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    172 years ago

    How about we just get rid of “private sale” exceptions to background checks in states like Tennessee to slow the tide of guns flowing into the black market?

    • 8bitguy
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      252 years ago

      In Tennessee, one has to buy liquor from the government, but can buy a gun (including semi-auto rifles) from a random person in a parking lot. No questions asked.

      • ElleChaise
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        152 years ago

        I know a person who actually obtained a handgun this way. In a parking lot of a bar on Florida, from a seller who was in his lunch break as an electrician… I’ll let those details sink in for anyone safety oriented.

        • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          O noooo, a bar parking lot…the humanity…did this someone you know go on to become a serial killer? Or do you still know them and they’re a normal person.

      • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Most firearms are semi-auto… what’s your point? You clearly don’t know much about firearms with a statement like that.

        You can do this in pretty much every state as well. Private sales are legal basically in the entire USA.