which is needed to purchase a gun in your state or country?

i'm curious about what's needed to purchase a gun as well. I frequently come across Armslist ads where the seller specifies a 'permit to purchase' is needed - this is for long guns i've seen up for sale. I found this confusing because I didn't think a permit was required to buy long guns.....just a driver's license.
 
I also once saw a guy screaming into the face of a cop over a parking ticket here in Japan. The cop just took it and let the guy rant. When he was done the guy drove away - nothing else happened. In the US, in any state I have been to, I can only imagine how many days you would spend in jail (and/or the hospital) after doing something like that. Japanese cops really do their jobs like they are servants of the public at large.
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I had a hard time taking cops in Japan seriously when I lived there. I remember seeing a couple of punk kids on scooters outrunning a cop car in Tokyo, and cops on bicycles are even worse. The ones i've come across in urban centers like Tokyo seemed to just sit in their little police boxes and do nothing all day
 
The UK is a democracy like America
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This may be a bit off topic, but the UK is not a democracy. The Queen is the richest woman in the world and has never earned a penny of it. When was the last time anyone in the House of Lords had to run for election?? (NEVER)

And the last I heard Northern Ireland was still an occupied country, or have all the troops left??

The US had to fight the British to gain our freedoms, India had to fight the British to gain their freedom, Palestine had to fight the British to gain their freedom, Southern Ireland had to fight the British to gain their freedom.

With GUNS, that is why we are so strongly against anyone that want's to take them away from us. We want to keep our freedoms from tyrants that want to take our democracy from us. And by the way we are a Republic (representative government)

Jim

Your idea of democracy and mine are worlds apart.
 
This may be a bit off topic, but the UK is not a democracy. The Queen is the richest woman in the world and has never earned a penny of it. When was the last time anyone in the House of Lords had to run for election??
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Firstly, the Queen: no she isn't. Not even in Britain J.K. Rowling is the richest woman there, I believe. Secondly she plays only a ceremonial role in the running of the state, so why she has been raised in this topic is a puzzle.
Nonetheless, whilst I am pretty ambivalent about the existence of the Royal Family, I must say they work pretty hard. You might want to see exactly how busy the Queen still is at 80-something years old...

Power lies with Parliament where laws and policy are managed by botht eh House of Commons and House of Lords. What one House puts forward the other reviews and scrutnises. Financial policy making and budgets are the responsibility of the HoC and the House of Lords have no veto in that regard. They can only voice their opinion. The HoC can take it on board or tell them tough luck.

The MPs in the HoCs are elected.

So, pretty much wrong on all counts...
 
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gaseousclay said:
i'm curious about what's needed to purchase a gun as well. I frequently come across Armslist ads where the seller specifies a 'permit to purchase' is needed - this is for long guns i've seen up for sale. I found this confusing because I didn't think a permit was required to buy long guns.....just a driver's license.
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A permit isn't required to purchase long guns in most states. I'm guessing it's for protection of the seller because if the buyer has a permit to purchase then they are most likely not a felon. In my state selling a long gun doesn't even require a drivers license as far as I know, because there aren't any laws about interstate sale of long guns.
 
J.K. Rowling is the richest woman there,
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Didn't know she bought the Crown Jewels and all the Castles that come with the crown as well as all the art work that is part of State property. Maybe Rowlings lends the Queen the Royal Yacht to use as well as all the Bentleys and gold covered coches.

I am sure there are plenty of guns to protect the Royal family, but that can not be said of the surfs that live in Soho or any other part of England or the UK.

Parliament sits by permission of the Queen and she can dissolve Parliament at any time. I am not anti-British but anti-crown and all that it stands for.

Like Patrick Henry said " Give me liberty or give me death". Living under the heel of any monarch no matter how motherly she or he seems, is not freedom by any stretch of the imagination. If you don't believe me just ask her children. The cost of maintaining the Crown is more than Rowlings made on all of her books and is paid for by the sweat and tears of British labor.

Jim
 
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Didn't know she bought the Crown Jewels and all the Castles that come with the crown as well as all the art work that is part of State property. Maybe Rowlings lends the Queen the Royal Yacht to use as well as all the Bentleys and gold covered coches.
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Be flippant all you want.
The Queen may be rich, but she falls well short of the Richest. Well short.

I am sure there are plenty of guns to protect the Royal family, but that can not be said of the surfs that live in Soho or any other part of England or the UK.
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Do you know what a serf is? It is essentially a peasant who works for food on a lord's estate. Is that what you claim is the British public?

Parliament sits by permission of the Queen and she can dissolve Parliament at any time. I am not anti-British but anti-crown and all that it stands for.
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Her role is ceremonial. Entirely ceremonial.
If she tried to apply those "powers" inappropriately she'd soon see she is not that powerful as all that.

I am not pro crown, but I am pro accurate representation of other nations...

I also think this is way off topic now.
 
And the last I heard Northern Ireland was still an occupied country, or have all the troops left??
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This is off topic but I hope that the mods will understand that I have to reply this type of misinformed post and give me some leeway. N Ireland is part of the UK and the some British army and N Irish regiments are based here just like American army soldiers are based in America. It will remain part of the UK until the majority of people in N Ireland want that to change democracy at work again. Your post is like me asking an American is America still an occupied country that was forcibly taken from native American Indians. It never fails to amaze me the lack of knowledge regards the UK the laws and the role of the queen by some Americans.

Back on topic firearms are easy to get in this part of the UK , certain things will stop you violent criminal history for example. If you do get firearms they have to be stored in a safe when not in use.
 
is America still an occupied country that was forcibly taken from native American Indians.
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Yes it is. As well as forcibly taken from the French, Spanish and British.

No there is no universal requirement to store firearms in a safe here (Yet). They do have to be kept out of the reach of children.

My pistols are stored in a safe and my rifles are stored locked in gun cabinets.

Jim
 
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Her role is ceremonial. Entirely ceremonial.
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Not exactly. While she does have vast amount of ceremonial roles and and duties, she is also the legal Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the military, though I grant you that many of those duties are delegated.
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The UK is a democracy like America
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The United States is not a democracy, it's a federal republic.

And this thread has gone woefully off topic.
 
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As post #27 states is correct. I have residence in Ohio & drivers license. I also have residence in ky & fl too. I can buy rifles in ky& fl but not pistols( other than private party). Must be shipped to Ohio. I may be able to get a state ID with utility bills to avoid that though.
 
How about we get back to the question posed by the OP? TFL is not a site dedicated to the responsible discussion of royal families around the globe . . .

In Arkansas, nothing is required beyond federal mandates.
 
New Mexico -

1. Choose the number and type of guns you want.

2. Fill out BATF form 4473 and show a photo ID (driver's license, concealed carry permit, state issued ID, any federal photo ID)

4. Once NICS is approved pay for guns

5. You're done.
 
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It is interesting to compare the process to buy a handgun today versus what it was 20 years ago.

In 1990, I bought my first handgun… a new Glock 17 from a dealer. At that time in St. Louis County, I had to drive to a local police station and request an application for a permit. I then had to fill out the application and mail it to police headquarters. It took four weeks for them to do a background check and approve me. They sent me a letter which stated I had been approved, and I had to drive down to police headquarters (40 miles away) and pick up my permit in person, between the hours of 8am and 4pm, Monday – Friday. I had to take time off from work to pick up the permit. This permit allowed me to buy a handgun sometime in the next 14 days… If I had not bought one in 14 days, the permit expired and I had to start over again. As far as carrying a handgun for protection? Virtually impossible.

In the past year, I bought two handguns, an FNH FNX-40, and a Ruger Vaquero. In both instances, it took about 15 minutes from the point where I said “Yes I will buy this” to the point where I walked out the door with a new plastic gun box under my arm. Phoning in the NICS background check, scanning the credit card, asking if I need any ammo or cleaning supplies, shaking my hand and saying “thankyou sir”… 15 minutes. As far as carrying a handgun for protection? Many in St. Louis county do, and the classes are always booked solid with new CCW-ers.

It is a huge improvement over 1990, and back in those grim days I did not think it would get better, only worse.

And to inform the argument between Jim243, Manta49, and Pond James Pond…. Although it was a difficult process to buy a handgun in 1990, and the local /state government used the process to discourage gun purchases, St Louis County was not an oppressive place governed by military rulers. As has been stated, gun restrictions are just one small part of political and economic oppression. Having spent time in London, I would hardly call the UK oppressive.

Jim
 
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