GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Jimbone]

If anyone knows, is Feinstein proposing to make background checks at gun shows a federal requirement?
It was easy to find information about current state laws/controls, but didn't find anything specifically about gun shows in Feinstein's website draft proposal. The "grandfathering registration" requirement that she is proposing leads me to believe that she wants all guns (new and old, through licensed dealers or private transactions) tracked. But, that's just an assumption on my part.

I'd say that is a safe assumption. From the reading of it I have done, she intends no exemptions and all firearms so named in the law must be registered regardless of purchase date, transaction, or owner.

Seems futile (again) to require background checks on gun dealers but not private sales or those at gunshows. Seriously, the laws we have are really fucked up and pointless.

Here's an example of how fucked up:

AR-15, the bogey man of rifles:



Scary looking, right?

Now here is the Ruger Mini 14 Ranch:



They function exactly the same, and take the exact same caliber bullet.

Shooter in Newtown could have done the exact same thing with either rifle, even though one looks like it belongs on a battlefield and the other looks like it belongs in the back of a pickup truck.