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Originally Posted by DNS
So while a positive article that indicates the sample of sellers wanted to do not break federal firearms laws by selling to folks by selling to prohibited persons or under illegal conditions, the article and operation in no way address sales being made to prohibited persons who fail to disclose their status, ala Devin Patrick Kelley. We know guns are getting in the hands of bad guys, all this does is indicate that they are not getting in the hands of bad guys who are into full disclosure of their status or want for the sale to be overtly illegal...which is probably only going to be a very small percentage of the really stupid folks. With that said, the sting did reveal that while not wanting to violate firearms laws, a small percentage of sellers were dishonest.
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I think it specifically refutes a popular notion that criminals handily skirt federal transfer restrictions by buying arms over the internet.
You know that an unlicensed New Yorker can't internet/mail order an M60 from Nevada and have it delivered to his home by UPS, but it is a notion that recurs frequently in political discourse.