“Private” transfers at gun shows are not regulated, though licensed dealers do have access to “instant check” on the web to sell guns on sight, without waiting periods. The massive weapons sales going on are outside the law, just like the drug sales the same traders are often involved in. Letting too many guns go by in a “sting” operation may not have been the brightest, but it was far from the first such action. Check into the drug market Noriega had going and the “help” he got from the DOJ under Meese.(Ollie North and other clowns were also in that circus.)
“Private” transfers at gun shows are not regulated, though licensed dealers do have access to “instant check” on the web to sell guns on sight, without waiting periods. The massive weapons sales going on are outside the law, just like the drug sales the same traders are often involved in. Letting too many guns go by in a “sting” operation may not have been the brightest, but it was far from the first such action. Check into the drug market Noriega had going and the “help” he got from the DOJ under Meese.(Ollie North and other clowns were also in that circus.)