Terrorists can come into this country and buy an AK47?

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Originally Posted by Preechr

When you buy a gun at a gun show, you are subject to a background check. I have bought a gun at a gun show, and I waited over an hour while they made sure it was safe for them to sell me a weapon. While this may be anecdotal and thus dismissable, when the told me he needed some info for the check, I asked him if there was any way to get around it, and he nearly walked away from me. It was pretty obvious that if I hadn't agreed to the check I wouldn't have gotten the gun.

As I waited, I asked him about the gun show rumor, and he assured me that it was bogus. You can no more get a gun legally at a show without getting checked out than you can at a Walmart. The only difference is the waiting period in those states that require it I believe, but my state doesn't have one so I'm not sure about that. Even if true, I'm not so sure a waiting period is any sort of effective deterrant to anything other than gun ownership itself.

It's not a matter of legality. It's a matter of enforcement.

My own grandfather has purchased two guns from a gun show without ever getting a background check.

And yes, Kerry did say that you can buy an AK47 legally in this country. That in and of itself is a lie. The assault weapons now legal after the expiration of the ban were semi-autos, not fully automatic.