So I heard this guy on a call-in show on NPR say that if Virginia required background checks at gun shows then folks would just set up in the parking lot and sell them outta the back of cars... I was thinking to myself, "Gee, don't ya' think the legislators would think of that and band sales of guns in parking lots adjacent to gun shows??? I mean, the NRAers are working overtime with their arguments... That one was a mighty stretch...

And Bill is correct... It's been over 200 years since the 2nd ammendment was written... The founders knew little of handguns other than dueling pistols... Their perspective was rifles... Not handguns... And, no, by singling handguns I am not advocation a ban on handguns... We just need to occasionally put things in some historical perspective...

B~