The Business of Guns

In 1998, the Clinton administration made efforts to tighten the gun show loophole.

advocacy groups began criticizing the persecution of the gun show loophole. Dr. Garen J. Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis, wrote that “there is no such loophole in federal law . . . the fundamental flaw in the gun show loophole proposal is its failure to address the great majority of private-party sales, which occur at other locations . . . where any non-prohibited person can list firearms for sale and buyers can search for private-party sellers.” Wintemute also called the gun shows in Arizona and Texas, states with minimal gun control laws, “a gunrunner’s paradise.” Dave Kopel, a former attorney for the NRA and current law professor at the University of Denver, took another angle on the investigations into gun shows in 2000, stating that gun show regulation was

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