How easy is getting a gun in USA?

How can you get a gun over there? What do you need? After watching many films in which you enter in a shop and buy a gun... is it really that easy? In Spain it\'s impossible to buy a gun (you need to have B license, and you only get it being police or something similar).

Any of you own a gun?

They sell the things at department stores. Its pretty easy. I dont think you need a license for something like a rifle. I would say you would need some kinda permit for a pistol.

You allowed guns in Australia as long as they arent semi automatic. We had the same gun laws as the US until there was a massacre in Tasmania, killing 30 people.

[videoholic]

heh, sell guns in department stores..  Yeah.  We have them right next to the children\'s shoes section.

Whatever...




There is a waiting period for guns of I think a week.  That way you can\'t get all pissed off at your wife, go buy a gun, come home and off the bitch.

I don\'t think you need licenses or anything unless you plan on carrying the weapon.  If it\'s just for shooting ranges and gun clubs and such I don\'t think you need much.

Of course you could always just go into the hood and buy one.

^^^Yup, I buy all my guns in back of liquor stores.

Guns are easy to get.  There is a 5 day waiting period now, but a lot of Podunk stores don\'t even adhere to it.

I own several guns, I like to roll down the street poppin caps whenever I get the chance.

[Kurt Angle]

Gun laws in the UK are very strict, farmers have shotguns for hunting which require a licence. Normal police officers do not carry guns. The special armed police forces that we have only respond to extreme circumstances, and even then the have to request permission to use their weapon.

I only know one person to own a gun. And he\'s a paranoid mofo. Don\'t ask me how he got it.

So you go to the shop and ask for a revolver (example). You only have to wait 5 days (i guess it will be a checking period for costumer\'s profile) and then you go, pay and you get the gun... wow... that\'s really an easy way.

I knew about the police in UK... I think police should carry a gun, like the most part of polices in the world...

Thanx for the info.

Legally they have the background check for things like criminal record,if you\'ve been in a mental ward recently,have any unresolved domestic abuse charges.This only takes about 45 minuites though,the rest of the time is for the so-called cooling off period.

Illegally,if you were standing next to me right now and gave me 100 dollars,I could be back with a gun for you in less than two hours.I\'ts pretty sad huh.

^^^Yup, I buy all my guns in back of liquor stores. - Gohan

Aww yeah. 40\'teys and 9\'s. My favorate shop.

Anyhow, it\'s pretty easy to get a gun over here. The five day waiting period is only if you buy them from a shop so that they can run a background check on you, and it\'s to keep convicted criminals from getting handguns. If you\'ve been to jail, you can no longer own a handgun. (Tho Rifles are still ok to own) I dunno about anywhere else.. but in Indiana you don\'t need any kind of permits, licences, or registration. You CAN get a handgun permit and register your weapon which will give you the ability to carry it in public and concealed.. but otherwise you pretty much gotta leave it at home or in the trunk of your car well out of arms reach.

Adan, if you came here you could buy my Colt .38 for $350 USD and that\'d be all there is to it. (Well, I\'m not QUITE sure since the laws regarding immagrants and handguns are probably different - expecially after 9/11.. but if you lived here it\'d be a different story.) You could also buy the parts and build your own gun from scratch.

I currently own a .38 Colt revolver, a 4-10 Savage Stevens Pump action Shotgun, a .20 Gauge single load Shotgun, and a .12 gauge sawed off double barrel shotgun my father made.

Well, in our constitution, one of the guaranteed rights was the right to own and bear arms.  Because of that, not much is done to limit their availability.

Wow Sonyfan... thieves should be away with that power... Have you used them any time? I mean against any person in order to protect yourself.

Shockwaves i didn\'t know it\'s on constitution. Good point then.

Laws vary from state to state. In Texas you can carry a concealed weapon, in Florida you cannot.

dajo, then are there various constitutions or only one? If Shockwaves said it was written down in constitution... did he mean his state constitution?

No.  The national constitution states that all citizens have the right to own and bear arms.  Different states, however, have put different restrictions on this right, to prevent people from abusing it.