"444, when some one approaches a FA transaction is such a cavilier manner, I'd hope someone would (as y'all have done) give him the correct information to keep him out of trouble. "
Giving correct information is terrific. That is what the guy wanted and needed. Which makes me wonder why instead of giving him any correct information you instead posted "Sounds very fishy".
Years ago, on this board, a guy came on and posted that he wanted to buy a machine gun. I saw that he was in Las Vegas and I sent him an IM. I told him that I was also from Las Vegas and that I had been to the local machine gun match the previous weekend and there was a guy there that had a brand new unfired Vector Uzi for sale. Long story short, he called the guy and bought it. Nice and simple: BUT, I knew I had to IM him instead of posting on his thread because I would be accused of being a felon. Instead of helping the guy, I knew from previous experience, we would have a number of people (most of whom don't own full auto weapons and never went through the process) accuse us both of being criminals. So, I handled it off the board because the board is counterproductive to our sport.
Instead of trying to scare people away from exercising their rights as Americans, why don't we support them ?
Instead of assuming your fellow gun owners are participating in criminal activity why don't you instead assume they are nice, responsible, law abiding citizens who are exercising their rights as Americans and enjoying their hobby instead of immediately assuming they are crooks ?
When I decided to enter the NFA weapons game I learned what was involved off the internet on various gun forums. I didn't learn a damn thing about it from all the people accusing each other of being criminals. In fact, for many years I was afraid to buy my first NFA weapon because of my fellow gun owners. It wasn't the media that scared me away from it. It wasn't the BATFE. It wasn't getting the CLEO signoff and it wasn't the price. It was my fellow gun owners.
Just one man's opinion that I know will never go anywhere because I have been complaining about this for years.
When you see our gun rights eroding day by day, realize that a significant part of the problem is not liberals, it is US. We can't band together. We instead attack each other like a pack of dogs. We can't wait to accuse each other or wrongdoing. We can't wait to rat each other out. And this is from people "into" the hobby enough to hang out on gun related internet forums.
Our days are numbered.