EXCLUSIVE: Buying a gun on Facebook takes 15 minutes
15 minutes? Man that’s quick! I’ve sold guns online and it rarely takes under a week. You need to get interest in the posting, you need to haggle with the price, you need to arrange a meeting, and all that doesn’t cover bills of sale, and exchange of IDs.
Hell I can’t even imagine that buying a gun illegally on the street takes such a short amount of time! BRAVO SIERRA!
It gets better!
In Kentucky, Greenup County Sheriff Keith Cooper remembers when a call came into dispatch last October saying a 15-year-old student had been arrested on the Greenup County High School campus for carrying an unlicensed and loaded 9mm handgun to school. The boy was arrested and brought to Cooper’s office for an interview.
How does one licence a handgun in Tennessee? Last I checked that was an impossibility. Man there is NOTHING in this report that isn’t crap!
I think the fastest I’ve ever managed to BUY a gun online was via Gunbroker.
It had been listed for about ten minutes when I hit buy it now. Three days for my payment to reach the seller. Two days for the gun to reach my friendly, local FFL. One more day why they dithered around and called me in.
So nearly a week!
PS: Notice that I didn’t get to bypass the whole background check thing?
Yep! Even when I did a Face to Face sale (requiring Mass FID/LTC and state registration, so still background check) it generally takes about a week of setting up the meeting to sell the gun and haggling over a price. I have bought/traded guns with friends, and even then we spend a few days figuring out the best time to trade.