Chink, You're right, of course. However, the promoters of the show have already notified the vendors that NO ONE will be allowed to display or sell guns at this upcoming show unless they provide a copy of their FFL and the driver's license number of all helpers or employees as decreed by the AG. So law or no law the results are the same.
If you are not a dealer, you cannot sell or display a firearm at this show. If you do and you don't have the paperwork they will have you removed from the show.
You can't blame the promoters. Their business is on the line here. They have to comply. As it is you can bet there will be more bogus buys at this show and a press conference to show all of the "illegal" stuff that they were able to buy there. Never mind that most of what they bought last time wasn't illegal, and what they showed at the last press conference wasn't all bought at the show.
They have targeted us for extinction and are probably going to succeed this time. We're outnumbered and outgunned in the legislature. They don't have to rely on things like truth and honesty...their motives are pure, so whatever it takes is ok. "For the children", etc., etc. We can call and write letters all we want. It's too late. If we continue to fight this war the way we have been, that is defensively, WE WILL LOSE.
Until we get agressive and start promoting gun ownership for all reasons, from plinking to self defense, we are only delaying the inevitable.
This is not defeatism. Just the opposite. I'm not giving up, I'm just going to go in a different direction.
No more begging lawmakers "please don't hurt me anymore" no more contributions to lobbyists who take our money, have lunch with corrupt polititions and then say "well, I tried, but it just didn't work this time, and, by the way, I need more money".
I haven't figured out yet all of the things I can do, but I'm working on it. I've always felt that the best defense is a massive and decisive offense. What do we have to lose?
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Dennis
"That no free man should ever be disarmed". (Thomas Jefferson)
wrightknife@ixpres.com