TFred
Regular Member
I thought there might have been a report on this already, but I couldn't find one. Today is August 7th, so we're one month and one week into the new law requiring the VSP to set up voluntary background checks at gun shows. I have read reports from an earlier show that there had been THREE checks during that particular weekend. (ETA: Further research reminded me that the news reports were from Saturday only, at a Richmond gun show on July 9th. I never did see the total from that show.)
I stopped by the Fredericksburg gun show this afternoon, and spoke with the very nice young lady at the VSP table that was set up to conduct voluntary background checks.
At 3:55, five minutes before the show ended, there had been ZERO voluntary checks conducted at the show this weekend.
Interestingly, she told me that they had some how set up their computer system so that all the FFL background checks conducted during the show were routed to her, so, where before any problems would have been handled by e-mail or telephone to someone in Richmond, now there was a "background checker" on site to actually go talk to if anything came up. That seems like a good thing.
She was optimistic that as time goes on, more people will become aware of the option and the numbers will go up. I guess we'll see. They certainly can't go down.
TFred
I stopped by the Fredericksburg gun show this afternoon, and spoke with the very nice young lady at the VSP table that was set up to conduct voluntary background checks.
At 3:55, five minutes before the show ended, there had been ZERO voluntary checks conducted at the show this weekend.
Interestingly, she told me that they had some how set up their computer system so that all the FFL background checks conducted during the show were routed to her, so, where before any problems would have been handled by e-mail or telephone to someone in Richmond, now there was a "background checker" on site to actually go talk to if anything came up. That seems like a good thing.
She was optimistic that as time goes on, more people will become aware of the option and the numbers will go up. I guess we'll see. They certainly can't go down.
TFred
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