Gary Wintemute, a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California-Davis and a gun control advocate, reports gun-show regulations do work, and do so without driving away buyers, even if they are stringent like in California.
(He) covertly observed and documented illegal gun sales at 28 gun shows; eight were in California, where shows are tightly regulated, and the rest were in Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Florida.
California requires that gun show promoters be licensed, while the other four states (the leading sources of guns used in crimes in California) don’t regulate shows at all.
Result? He found a lot more “straw-man” or “cut-out” gun buyers, people with clean records buying for criminals, in all the other states besides California.
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