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How difficult is it to buy a gun in America?

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  • #32
    phill106
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,838 ✭✭✭phill106


    hmmm must be some way of doing it legally (for guns that allowed here). Must check on shooting forum some time!


  • #33
    deathrider
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    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Just show your drivers license and Bobs your uncle. :p.

    You have to show them proof that you have an uncle named Bob? :eek:


  • #34
    minidazzler
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    Khyra24 wrote: »
    I don't think it's very difficult at all to buy a gun here...for shame.

    Yes, teenagers shooting at each other instead of playing ball...genius.

    You serious? How often do teenagers actually shoot at eachother? If there were more people armed as it is in the US, in this country, I am thinking our government wouldn't be so quick to be cnutish.


  • #35
    Rented Mule
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    karlog wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIpLd0WQKCY

    This is one of my favorite Simpsons episodes of all time. The next scene is Homer sitting in front of his house waiting for the post to arrive for five days. As he sits there, everything goes by as if in an arcade with Tom Petty's The Waiting playing. Sheer brilliance.


    I was robbed at gunpoint about eight years ago. I was absolutely infuriated and went out and applied for my gun card and starting looking at guns. By the time the gun card had arrived, I started to cool down a bit.

    Homer's comment 'Five days ??? ...but I'm angry now !!' really hits home when I think about it.


  • #36
    Odysseus
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    whiteboy wrote: »
    It's quite interesting to me that anyone over the age of 18, as long as they are a US citizen, can simply walk into a store and buy a gun.
    Of course they have to do a background check to see if you're not a criminal or anything but otherwise you're free to go.

    I think they should introduce guns into this country and in the same vein, allow anyone over the age of 18 to buy one, There would be no more teenagers complaining that they have nothing to do during the summer.

    Anybody can, all you need is good reason, hunting or being a member of a target club. If if for hunting all you need is to be able to prove you have access to land to hunt on.

    Security is required, but it's not difficult to buy a gun safe.

    I have two rifles and a shotgun.

    The process can be slow here, but it is not as difficult as most people think. The flase belief that is is really difficult put me off applying for years, the issue here is the types of firearm we are allowed, i.e. no hand guns anymore.

    The problem in Ireland is we are supposed to have a system that is clear, but sadly it is not. You may be allow a certain type of firearm in one district, but a couple of miles down the road you can't as the super dislikes that type.

    There are issues around restricted firearms, but getting a cert for a shot-gun or a .22 is not that difficult.


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  • #37
    Capt'n Midnight
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    JonnyMacM wrote: »
    Federal law states that every PERSON that buys a handgun/long gun in USA has to go through a NICS background check before purchasing a gun from a business/shop/dealer (there are a few exceptions), private sales are exempt from this.
    http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/nics
    Mandated by the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 and launched by the FBI on November 30, 1998, NICS is used by Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) to instantly determine whether a prospective buyer is eligible to buy firearms or explosives. Before ringing up the sale, cashiers call in a check to the FBI or to other designated agencies to ensure that each customer does not have a criminal record or isn't otherwise ineligible to make a purchase. More than 100 million such checks have been made in the last decade, leading to more than 700,000 denials.
    No surprise really that 99.3% of people who apply aren't denied.

    http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/copy_of_TotalNICSBackgroundChecks.pdf
    14,409,616 checks last year
    2,796,849 in 2011 to Feb 28


    Excluding those too young to buy guns this would indicate there was one gun bought for every two adults since '98 so shouldn't have any problem picking up one secondhand


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