A Challenge: Go to your local craigslist, and type in "GUNS" (in the For Sale section)

[IdaBriggs]

Then come back and report here how many people were willing to either SELL or TRADE guns or ammunition.

Bonus fun: how many of those people will be doing a "background check" do you think?

Congratulations - you have just discovered how easy it is to get a gun in your neighborhood.

Feel safer?

[Kaleva]

1. Zero for me. Lots of nail guns, gun cabinets and so on though.

[Tikki]

23. Zero here in this Coastal section of So Cal...unless you mean paint ball guns.

Tikki

[Kaleva]

27. I saw a few listings for paint ball guns

[Robb]

2. The code word at the moment is "bang" or "things that go bang."

As in "...Willing to trade for jetski, armor, things that go bang, etc."

[Fumesucker]

28. "Home protection" is another code word for guns on CL n/t

[NYC_SKP]

3. I found some listings. All will be doing a background check.

If they are following the law.

NB: As I have said until I'm [font color = blue]blue in the face[/font color], I support expanding California laws to the other 49 states.

But nobody listens, they prefer juvenile name calling....

Example:

P95 RUGER - $425 (209)
9MM
GREAT CONDITION
2 MAGS
MAG POUCH
STAINLESS SLIDE
ASKING $425 FIRM
EMAIL ME IF INTERESTED
MUST GO THRU FFL DEALER SORRY NO EXCEPTIONS
PLEASE DONT EMAIL ME IF YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO GO TO FFL DEALER. IM LEGAL AND IM EXPECTING THE SAME FROM YOU. THANKS

Reason:

Buying and Selling Firearms in California
Since 1991, substantially all firearms transfers are required to use a California-licensed FFL. There are no legal 'paperless' or 'face to face' handgun transfers, and just a few ways to do FTF with long guns.

Unless you are exempt, there will be a 10-day wait from submitting the DROS until you may legally pick up your purchase.

Unless you are exempt, or purchasing a handgun via Private Party Transfer, you may purchase only one handgun in 30 days.

In both cases, the time of the waiting period begins at the time the DROS is submitted to the state.

http://wiki.calgunsfoundation.org/Buying_and_selling_firearms_in_California

Good post, K/R

[petronius]

4. Paint, BB, Airsoft, Nerf, Xploderz, or PS2? Other than that, all I found

was one fairly entertaining estate sale with a pair of what looked like antique rifles or shotguns - no details or mention of a BGC in that one...

[LittleBlue]

5. There is a Craigslists for guns, Armslist

http://www.armslist.com/

There are a ton of guns listed for my area, quite a few assault rifles.

[mnhtnbb]

6. When I go to Armslist for NC and choose 'handguns'

there are 158 PAGES of listings; 149 pages for rifles.

[Jenoch]

9. After reading your post,

I went to Armslist for the second time. There are a lot of guns for sale, but I didn't see a single assault rifle for sale.

[LittleBlue]

11. I'm not a gun aficionado

but it didn't take me a minute to find this one

http://www.armslist.com/posts/1740512/dothan-alabama-nfa-firearms-for-sale--lmt-short-barreled-ar-15-upper-10-5-

Of course, I looked in Alabama to maximize my chances of finding one lol

[Jenoch]

12. That is only 1/2 of a gun by the way and when it is

a whole gun, it still is not an assault rifle. By definition an assault rifle is capable of full-auto operation.

[Jenoch]

7. I'm in the Twin Cities.

Minnesota has a long history of hunting and hunting and fishing are even protected activities in our state constitution. Democratic candidates have in the past lost elections because of their anti-RKBA views. Even with all of that, I found not a single gun for sale on Craigslist just now. There was one guy who wanted to trade his website development services for guns and another guy who is a gunsmith who was looking to repair guns, I saw a few magazines for sale, but no actual guns on the first two pages going back over a week. I then did the same search using the word 'gun' and had similar results.

If the point of this thread is to determine the number of guns for sale on Craigslist, the answer is ZERO.

[Robb]

14. ...

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/search/?areaID=19&subAreaID=&query=%22go+bang%22&catAbb=sss

[Jenoch]

16. Did you read that list?

There is a lot of cool stuff on that list, from boats to ATVs, tractors to motorcycles, but no guns.

[Robb]

18. Did you? Every one is asking for guns in trade.

[Jenoch]

20. Ok, I opened a few of them up.

Hyperbole on your part is not necessary, 'every one' was not asking for guns in trade.

That sure is not a very efficient way to acquire a gun. If we need to crack down on criminals getting guns, there are many more areas to crack down on rather than 'things that go bang' on Craigslist.

[Robb]

22. Obviously you have never tried to sell a motorbike on CL.

The last two bikes I sold took about three weeks to sell -- they were good bikes, priced fair.

I could have "sold" either in equal value trade for firearms in less than a week, and taken my pick of offers. There is much of this out there, and has been for years.

[Jenoch]

26. I have not sold anything on Craigslist.

I have purchased a few things, none of them were guns.

[pintobean]

8. The thing about Craigslist

one never knows if it's a cop on the other end of the transaction. That's how they popped a local priest for propositioning a minor for prostitution a few years back. They found a bunch of kiddy porn on his computer, also.

[hack89]

10. Not in Rhode Island - we have universal background checks. nt

[Robb]

13. And yet here's more than a dozen Rhode Islanders looking to trade items for guns.

Or do you think they mean firecrackers when they say "things that go bang"?

[hack89]

15. "Zero LOCAL results found. Here are some from NEARBY areas..."

Here's a clue: CT, Mass, NH =/= Rhode Island

[Robb]

17. Is Providence in Rhode Island?

"Willing to trade for 20 gage with ammo!"

"Only trades I would be interested in is firearms things (ammo, scopes, [betc)"]

"Trades include go karts, skeletons, decorations, halloween stuff, antiques, artifacts, weird stuff, funny animals, [band guns...ammo too."]

"Will trade for firearm or ammo let me know what you have"

"Possibly open to trade plus cash, fire arms, ammo"

etc. etc. etc.

[hack89]

19. It is not a legal transaction without the background check

Your links are not an indication of illegal activity.

How do you think UBCs will work for private sales? Are you proposing banning private sales? I don't understand your point

[KamaAina]

21. Well, at least they cracked down on escort services

[1-Old-Man]

24. 1 pistol, 1 rifle, no shotguns, 1 Starter's pistol (can only shoot blanks)

I did four separate searches, one for gun, one for rifle, one for pistol, and one for shotgun.

[1-Old-Man]

25. I should have mentioned, I go to the local fleamarket many sundays, there's always guns for sale

I could buy two dozen guns any sunday morning I wanted to. Most of them would be pretty nice rifles or junk pistols with a lot of mass produced/marketed shotguns (Montgomery Wards, Sears) tossed in as well.