Why are gun shows controversial?
Gun shows are controversial because they still have some elements of freedom and that drives some of the control freaks crazy and they want to stop it and they talk about the Gun show loophole. Well, loophole is a word that is easier to understand if you think about when a politician talks about a tax loophole, he's talking about taking more of your money. When a politician talks about a Gun loophole, he's talking about taking away some more of your freedom. And so the gun show loophole is simply people who are able to buy at a gun show the way they buy a Gun from their father or their neighbor at home, in other words without any government involvement. But they can only do that at the Gun show if the person selling the gun is not a federally licensed firearms dealer and there are overwhelming number of people selling guns at gun shows are federally licensed firearms dealers and so they're going to have the same ground check and the same useless and needless and burdensome paperwork filled out on them as if they bought it in a store on main street.
