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Have you been to a gun show?  I'm betting you haven't.  Yes, you have background checks.  Don't believe me, go to one and try to buy a gun. [/quote]

You may want to check your facts.

[url]http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/gun-show-firearms-bankground-checks-state-laws-map.html[/url]
[quote]Known as the "gun show loophole," most states do not require background checks for firearms purchased at gun shows from private individuals -- federal law only requires licensed dealers to conduct checks.

Under the Gun Control Act of 1968, federal law clearly defined private sellers as anyone who sold no more than four firearms per year. But the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act lifted that restriction and loosely defined private sellers as people who do not rely on gun sales as the principal way of obtaining their livelihood. [/quote]

In fact only 11 states require background checks for all purchases, 7 states only require background checks for handgun sales.  So 32 states have no requirements for background checks and 7 states allow purchases for non-handguns without background checks.

In addition, this isn't just a small problem.  The sheer volume of purchases done "privately" is quite large:

[url]http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/background-checks/universal-background-checks/[/url]
[quote]The most dangerous gap in federal firearms laws today is the “private sale” loophole.  Although federal law requires licensed firearms dealers to perform background checks on prospective purchasers and maintain records of all gun sales, it does not require unlicensed “private” sellers to do so. [u][b]An estimated 40% of all firearms transferred in the U.S. are transferred by unlicensed individuals.[/b][/u]

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According the U.S. Department of Justice, because federal law does not require universal background checks, [b]“individuals prohibited by law from possessing guns can easily obtain them from private sellers and do so without any federal records of the transactions.”[/b]  “The private-party gun market,” one study observed, “has long been recognized as a leading source of guns used in crimes.”  Although the private sale loophole is frequently referred to as the “gun show” loophole (because of the particular problems associated with gun shows), it applies to all private firearm sales, regardless of where they occur.

The growth of the Internet has significantly increased the ability of individuals prohibited from possessing firearms to find sellers willing to transfer firearms to them without background checks.

[list]As of September 2013, about 67,000 firearms were  listed for sale online from private, unlicensed sellers.[/list]
[list]29% of ads by private sellers on Armslist.com (a popular website for firearm sales) were posted by high-volume private sellers who posted five or more ads over an eight-week period.[/list]
[list]According to an undercover investigation conducted by the City of New York, 62% of private online firearm sellers agreed to sell a firearm to a buyer even after the buyer had told the seller that he or she probably could not pass a background check.[/list][/quote]

This second article has a lot of additional information, such as how a huge volume of illegal gun activity is generated by the private sales loophole.  By cutting off the private sales loophole, you will cut down significantly on criminal access to guns.  Lawful gun owners can still get their guns via gun shops and gun shows with a background check, but you can cut down the sheer volume of guns going to criminals and illegal gun users.  [/quote]

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