Close The ‘Gun Free Zone’ Loophole

By Ammoland

By Jeff Knox

Buckeye, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun control advocates are fond of the word “loophole,” and if you ask them, they will tell you that U.S. gun laws are full of them.

What they mean by a “loophole” appears to be anything in a law that doesn’t completely prohibit access to, or possession of firearms, including intentionally included limits on a law’s reach.

When the Brady Background Check law was passed in the early ‘90s, it was specifically intended to apply only to the transactions of federally licensed dealers, not private individuals. It didn’t take long for the Brady Bunch and their friends to start declaring the limits on the law to be a “loophole” because it didn’t apply to firearms transfers between private parties.

When the “Assault Weapon Ban” was passed in 1994, it forbade sale and import of firearms with certain specific features. Gun makers almost immediately shifted their designs to exclude those restricted features, and again, the hoplophobes, with their irrational fear of firearms, declared these modifications to be a “loophole” in the law.

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