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bonfire: First of all, since you have never attended a gun show, all you are saying is that other people "say" criminals are buying guns there. I reiterate that private sellers at gun shows, even though they do not have to complete a background check, size up the customer very well. If they didn't, they would then have to give up their private sales and pay the government fees to become a FLD. Several FLDs gave up their licenses when additional fees and reporting requirements were imposed on them by the government. This only left the big dealers in the market.

The black market is the source of most illegally used firearms, not the 15% of the private vendors at gun shows. Now you are right, I have attended about 6 gun shows, all in the local area. But you haven't attended one. Therefore, I assert that I am in a better position to comment on gun shows than someone who doesn't. Fair enough?

The polls by the national media vary. When the simple question of whether you support "universal background checks", the public says yes. But once the details of the "universal background check" being considered by Schumer and Feinstein are offered to the person taking the poll, the answer goes down from the numbers you cited to about 35% in approval. Once people learn that the background information will be kept forever by the government, rather than destroyed after the person clears a background check, once they learn that the feds will impose a gun registry system on all gun owners (giving the government all information about you, the gun you own, the serial number and who you transfer it to), people decide "universal background checks" isn't what they thought they would be.

Police departments having a hard time getting ammo for their departments have only themselves to thank. Once Obama/Feinstein/Schumer/Bloomberg began these bizarre gun law proposals, people rushed to stock up on ammo, thereby creating a shortage. If the Police Chiefs would only join the Sheriff's Association and refuse to support the type of gun laws being proposed, things would settle down. The ammo manufacturers could rebuild inventories, and the police will have their ammo. They are responsible for the problem they created for themselves.

I am against violent crime, but I don't share your passion to focus only on guns. We have millionaire nutcases in Hollywood producing and acting in violent films, we have violent video games (which many of the recent killers admit to having watched) that contributes to violent crimes, we have housewives with a drawer full of kitchen knives which are used to commit murders, we have the problem of mental health issues that have been ignored. Show me you are serious about stemming violent crimes by joining me in lambasting the aforementioned and their responsibility for those violent crimes.

Otherwise, it just appears to me you hate people with guns (notwithstanding yourself and your arsenal) and you want to get even with people like me that support responsible gun legislation, such as that now proposed in the Minnesota Legislature, that addresses the "straw man" purchase. You should support this legislation, but two big city democrats who chair the House and Senate committees won't give the bill a hearing. Therefore, we will not get anything passed, which I hope makes you happy. You can't have it all your way in politics, which is the art of negotiation.