Yeah, the average ten year old is being subverted by terrorists to hide weapons of mass destruction in their body orifices and has been programmed to die. PARANOIA at it's finest.
MEXICO. PROOF. Drug Cartels have every type of firearms including machine guns and RPGs. Very strict gun control in Mexico.
For example: Puerto Rico has very strict Police structured gun control, licensing, limits on what can be purchased and limits on ammo quantities, ammo must be accounted for, low crime, right ? WRONG ! Again, all it does is cause law abiding people to go through hoops in order to have firearms. Yet criminals in Puerto Rico can get firearms easily enough, and corrupt police often facilitate firearms to known criminals.
Truth is they don't, something about background checks and lots of cops and BATF folk hanging around.
my favorite is the TOTALLLLLLLLY not an BATFE agent that sits around selling "oil filters" at a table in the back that everyone avoids as if he does not exist despite his heckling.
I attend most every gun show (weekly most months though sometimes only twice a month) that runs through the convention center (I don't like going into down town houston and walking a block or two to my car with armloads of ammo and slung rifles etc. its just a hassle) as I am a collector of discerning taste who is looking to complete his WWII armaments collection so he can move on to WWI. (Its hard to find a good german mauser, or a springfield or SMLE with original parts that hasn't been shot to **** for a price that doesn't beggar belief so I make a trip fairly often to price browse and look for good deals). And at each of those there is a table of a guy selling "oil filters" (spelled in quotes on the sign ffs) who no one will give the time of day to because everyone knows he's an undercover. There are numerous tables that display suppressors and can get you started on the NFA paperwork for one, but just the one table of the guy who will sell you an "oil filter" while giving you instructions on how to violate the NFA with it and then you get rounded up in the parking lot. The shows (multiple orgs) let him because he pays the table fee, takes up a corner no one otherwise wants in the back, and that's pretty much the only rousting they tend to do unless they're walking to the bathroom and hear some dumbass telling his girlfriend to make a straw purchase for him. Its great, they stick the guy next to this 'nam vet who sells mil surplus crap (and I mean absolute crap. not the good stuff, the leavings from multiple decades ago) and will just go on and on and on and on and on and on about the wildest conspiratard BS and the ******* just has to sit there and take it.
At guns shows it's not the guys sitting at tables that really matter, it the ones walking around watching and listening.
Pretty small community and the only one I've noticed is Capt Obvious so far. Though since I'm legal and I don't often sell and when I do its normally to a table maybe I just haven't paid close enough attention.
Listen for intercom announcements... they are often coded warnings... potential thieves, media shill buyers, etc.
I and a friend of mine used to work gun shows I held the FFL and we where known to BATF as 10 percenter's, we had very little inventory on the table, but had access to nearly any type of gun someone might want to buy. A typical sale would be someone would stop by and ask if we had a particular handgun, most of the time we didn't, but could order it right then online and at dealer price plus 10% and since there was a 3 day waiting period if the buyer didn't have a carry license, all we had to do was have it in stock by Wednesday to be picked up after the time the NICS check on the weekend was completed. On a typical weekend we would get deposits for $5K+ of sales, not bad for a non-stocking FFL with no storefront or real overhead. However there was a group of guys who where at nearly every gun show, kinda rough looking folks, one of them stopped by our table and wanted to buy a gun, cash no questions asked, no background checks. My answer was no deal! Guess who they worked for?
They don't. A gun show would be the last place I'd go to buy a gun if I were a criminal. First of all, most gun shows I've been to have had cops at the door. Second, most gun dealers look like retired cops (or retired motorcycle gang members). Third, there are too many witnesses. Criminals get almost all of their guns from people they know.
NYC investigated gun shows in several states. @2:05: investigator: That's good about the background check because I probably couldn't pass one. private seller: I don't care. All's I gotta do is demand that you show me your license. investigator: You don't care about the background check, right? private seller: Nope... because I wouldn't pass either, bud. The investigation found that most private sellers (about 2/3) were willing to sell guns to someone who volunteered that they probably couldn't pass a background check. Isn't that disturbing?
A 13 year old boy can't buy liquor. He can't buy cigarettes. He can't buy porn. He can't even buy lottery tickets. However, he can easily buy a gun at a gun show:
The video is fake, and the nonsense contained within was debunked as soon as it came out. Neither Michael Bloomberg, nor his out-of-state investigators informed local law enforcement of what they were attempting to do, nor was any of the supposed "evidence" turned over to law enforcement for prosecution and criminal charges.