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Rabid anti-gun propagandist (and spy) Garen Wintemute has recently released a "study" that he claims shows widespread nefarious behavior at gun shows. He further claims that the pervasiveness of such behavior is strongly inversely correlated with the strictness of gun laws (particularly with regard to gun shows) in the state in which the show is held.
Included in the links on the left are just a couple examples of Wintemute's "study" being deftly debunked. Rather than taking the time to echo what those authors have already pointed out, I would like instead to draw attention to something useful in Wintemute's report.
In Chapter 4, "What's for Sale" (pdf file), is a section titled "Partially Finished Guns." He refers here to machined pieces of metal that can, with some work, be made into firearm receivers (the part of the gun, that for legal purposes, is the gun). Since they are not yet guns (or even receivers), they can be sold without paperwork, without background checks, without serial numbers--sold, indeed, just like the inert hunks of metal that they are. This disturbs Dr. Wintemute:
Partially finished receivers are not common at gun shows, but are discussed here as they may be attractive for buyers with criminal intent, especially drug trafficking and other criminal or-ganizations that have the resources to employ gunsmiths. These partially-finished receivers can be used to produce finished fire-arms with only moderate expertise and relatively simple tools, and they carry no serial numbers. Guns made from them cannot be traced.
Cannot be traced? The horror!
As a gun rights advocate, I argue strenuously against registration, knowing full well that "registration leads to confiscation" is far more than a bumper sticker slogan--it is a fact that we have seen played out time and again (in California, for example).
Unfortunately, gun registration in fact, if not in name, is already here, and has been since passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Since then, gun shops must retain purchase records for every gun they have ever sold, and keep those records--forever. The BATFE can demand any sales record at any time. If the shop ever goes out of business (and the BATFE is not above trying to bully even law-abiding shop owners out of business), all that shop's sales records go to the BATFE for "safekeeping."
Wintemute, by bringing attention to one method for people to arm themselves with no government record of the fact, has done freedom a favor, albeit while intending the exact opposite.
Sadly, I, being one of the most mechanically inept mammals on Earth, would be hard-pressed to convert one of these partially completed receivers into the basis of a functional firearm, but many readers are not so afflicted (note: a gun manufactured in this way can not legally transferred to another--ever). A good, liberty-loving source of these unfinished receivers is KT Ordnance (who have faced their own ATF persecution), in Montana.
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Comments
"...widespread nefarious behavior at gun shows."
You know, now that I think about it, I certainly have heard word of such nefarious behavior. It seems to be pretty common for provocateuring statist belligerents to infiltrate these peaceable marketplaces with the intent to entrap either customers or vendors into various technical infractions of "crimes" with no victim. This not only violates the rights and privacies of all involved, but it demonstrates a clear contempt for the traditional rule of law, in which only "crimes" which are mala in se are considered legitimately prosecutable, and in which enforcing prior restraint on the peaceable is considered an intentional abuse of authority.
Nefarious behavior, indeed. Someone should do something about that.
Indeed, Mr. Wilmeth, indeed.
For anyone interested, David Codrea has a recent post about KT Ordinance offering products at a 50% discount:
waronguns.blogspot.com/2009/09/fighting-swarm.html
Thanks, Sean. I have a link to that article in the "Related Articles" section, but I should probably have mentioned what it was about.
Any mention of that parasite Wintemute should be accompanied by his photo. I believe War on Guns had it once. Maybe a Google search is in order.
Kent, I agree, but I don't know if there are any pics available that are free for general public use.
Kent, I turned the first mention of his name into links to a couple different pics of him.
His study is inversely correlated to intelligent life.
You are wrong on one count
The homebuilt guns can be legally transferred easily
All one would have to do apply to the ATF for a serial number
He of cours is wrong on many levels
Like the fact that if a gunsmith makes a receiver and sells it to you for your partially finished kit he would have to be an FFL and therefore would have to go through the same steps as any other FFL when selling to the public
I will have to assume that the kits are AK kit
It takes no great skill or expensive machinery to cobble one of these together
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