Let there be no doubt: Bob Pope is a gun-packing Republican. The sixth-generation Tennessean is a Newt Gingrich-supporting Second Amendment advocate who ran gun shows for 25 years.You know what this means, don't you? It means the "us against them" in the gun debate is not divided along the lines of gun-rights folks and gun-control folks. It's divided along the lines of reasobable folks and unreasonable folks.
“If I was going to buy an illegal gun, I’d go to a gun show and buy it,” said Pope, a towering man perched on an old-fashioned wing chair in the formal living room of his Hermitage home near the Wilson County line.
“Currently, I would estimate, on the low side, there are over 100 gun shows across the state of Tennessee every year,” Pope said. “On the low side, there are 1,000 guns without any records sold at every show, every day.”
There’s no way to prove that, because statistics on those sales don’t exist.
Pope says the system allows people who break into houses and steal guns to easily resell them. It allows felons to buy guns.
What's your opinion? How widespread is the attitude of Mr. Pope among gun owners do you think?
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