The Seattle Times reports:

The customers, mostly older men, have come to the Vancouver Gun and Knife Show to check out weapons with classic brand names like Winchester, Remington, Browning and Ruger.

These gun shows are also where someone barred by federal law from buying a gun — a felon, say, or someone who had been committed for a mental illness — can purchase a gun at one of the tables manned by a private seller.

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Under current federal law, background checks are required only for sales by licensed firearms dealers. I-594 would expand those background checks to private transfers or sales, like some of the transactions at gun shows.

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