Senators Joe Manchin, D-WV and Pat Toomey, R-PA had been working on a compromise gun legislation in the US Senate. It failed this week to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a suspected GOP filibuster. Prior to the vote I saw this article in a Virginia newspaper that outlined some part of our gun laws to date. I will quote. "Federal background checks currently are required only for transactions handled by the roughly 55,000 federally licensed firearms dealers; private sales such as gun show or online purchases are exempt (my emphasis). The system is designed to keep guns from criminals, people with serious mental problems and some others" The last sentence must have been put into the article as a joke.
(Source: "Senators work toward bipartisan deal on gun background checks" by Alan Fram of The AP. In The Virginian Pilot on 4/8/13)
