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The fallaout has begun in the Goshen IN shooting,accused was a home ffl

Josey1Josey1 Member Posts: 9,598 ✭✭
edited December 2001 in General Discussion
IN Factory Shooting Highlights Need for Improved Oversight U.S. Newswire 7 Dec 16:33 Indiana Factory Shooting Highlights Need For Improved Oversight Of Kitchen-Table Gun Dealers To: State Desk Contact: Naomi Seligman of the Violence Policy Center, 202-822-8200, ext.105 Web site: www.vpc.org WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The tragic shooting yesterday allegedly perpetrated by Indiana kitchen-table gun dealer Robert Wissman at the NuWood Decorative Millwork factory in Goshen, Indiana, highlights the need for improved oversight of such dealers, the Violence Policy Center (VPC) stated today. Wissman was a Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder and ran Bob's Gun Works from the home he shared with his mother. Kitchen-table gun dealers are individuals who hold FFLs and conduct business out of their homes or offices but do not operate actual gun or sporting-goods stores. Federal Firearm License holders are exempt from state and federal waiting periods and background checks, and are able to purchase firearms from wholesalers at discount and in unlimited quantities. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has identified kitchen-table dealers as a key source of firearms in criminal gun trafficking. The November 2000 VPC study Less Gun Dealers, Less Crime: The Drop in Federally Licensed Firearm Dealers in the Midwest found that the number of gun dealers in Indiana had dropped 66 percent, from 5,872 in January 1994 to 1,970 in January 2000. This decline is largely attributed to new licensing and renewal criteria contained in 1993's Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and 1994's Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, as well as enhanced ATF enforcement. As a result, by 1998 56 percent of FFLs nationwide operated out of residential premises, down from 74 percent in 1992. "While much progress has been made in reducing the number of kitchen-table dealers, and thereby reducing criminals' access to guns, yesterday's shooting highlights the fact that there is still much more work to be done," said VPC Policy Analyst Marty Langley. To continue to build on FFL reforms, the VPC recommends the following actions: -- All federally licensed firearms dealers should be required to operate from a storefront business, not a residence. Licenses should be limited to businesses devoted primarily to the sale of firearms. Gun shops should be conspicuously identified to the public as such. -- ATF should have the authority to suspend a dealer's license or assess civil penalties -- in addition to revocation authority-when a dealer violates the law. -- ATF's ability to inspect a licensee's premises to ensure compliance with recordkeeping and other requirements should be expanded from once a year to at least four times per year. http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1207-123.html
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I am wrong, please, someone correct me. Isnt it ALREADY a requirement that an FFL dealer operate from a storefront and not a residence, according to the BATF?
    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    Rob, that is wrong. The ATF requires that gun dealers obey all local laws regarding business zoning, and many local laws prohibit gun dealers from operating in the home. It is not an ATF requirement that gun dealers operate from a store front. That is a local requirement in many areas.
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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Is there any evidence that would indicate if these new proposed rules were in place, that this "nut" would have been stopped?I just can never follow the "logic" from people connected to groups like the VPC--the "solutions" they propose have no practical relationship to the "problem" they identify.Some nut-case shoots up a business, he is (allegedly) a FFL; therefore new regulations on FFL's will stop shootings?There are a lot of other variables besides being an FFL which are affecting things--how have those in the VPC determined that his FFL status is the "significant" factor "causing" the shooting? Or that the reduction in the number of FFL holders over the past years is "the factor" causing the reduction in crime?This opinion being presented by the VPC, demomstrates a serious lack of "logical progression" in thinking--those proposing this are probably in need of some type of psychological help--seriously!
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  • 22WRF22WRF Member Posts: 3,385
    edited November -1
    Does the Violence Policy Center (VPC) mean having a home based FFL may cause you to commit such an act?
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  • Mark IIMark II Member Posts: 247 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FFL's only to businesses devoted to firearms sales? Does this mean that large sporting goods or general merchandise stores will no onger be able to hold FFL's? Because they sell more than just firearms and firearm related items?
    "To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet an enemy."
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