Was Zimmerman a Home-Grown Militant?

[sirs]

ISSUED A GUN PERMIT....does not equal....permitted to purchase a gun

But I'm sure Xo appreciates your defensive efforts     

[BT]

If you are permitted to purchase a gun is that not a permit. If i am licensed to drive do i not get a drivers license, what do you get with guns, a receipt? No proof that a satisfactory background check was run? How does one show the purchase was permitted? What piece of paper do they show.

[sirs]

If you are permitted to purchase a gun is that not a permit.

No. 

That's called a 2nd amendment right.  So no, you are not issued a "permit" when you purchase a gun.  You may be handed a receipt from the store owner, ownership papers (NOT a permit), and a handshake, but no, you are not handed a "permit". 

In fact, the way you're trying to intermix the termis of a permit vs being permitted, implys that the gun purchase is not a right, but a priviledge, that of the state having the good graces to permit you to purchase the firearm

Keep digging though, Xo has to love how you're trying to dig him out of his hole, while yours gets deeper

[BT]

there are quite a few states that require a permit to purchase a handgun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_United_States_%28by_state%29

[sirs]

sorry... a link to wikipedia MINUS some specificity as to this notion of states requiring a "permit" to purchase, isn't going to cut it

keep digging

[BT]

They have a handy chart and everything.

CT, IL, IA are just 3. there are more

[sirs]

Sorry, you're not required to have a "permit" to purchase a gun.  Subsequent paperwork after the purchase may be referred to as a permit, in some remote locales, but you are not required to have a "permit" to purchase a gun.  Just have to be legal. Keep digging.

[BT]

not according to wiki, add NY,NJ, RI to states requiring purchase permits.

[sirs]

Keep digging, especially since this tangential sematic hunt you're on, has to do with the context by which Xo used it.  But knock your socks off

I do not trust whomever tested Zimmerman or the guy that shot Gabi Gifford, or the process by which they were issued gun permits, no.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Zimmerman and Loughner should not have been permitted to buy, own or operate guns.

[sirs]

As long as anyone has a legal right to purchase, your dictatorial "no they can't" doesn't fly in this country

[BT]

As long as anyone has a legal right to purchase, your dictatorial "no they can't" doesn't fly in this country

that is not a true statement.

[sirs]

2nd amendment says it is

[BT]

A convicted felon can not purchase a gun. In some states a person under a restraining order can not purchase a gun. Which means that gun purchasing is more a privilege than a right.

[sirs]

A convicted felon can not purchase a gun. In some states a person under a restraining order can not purchase a gun.

Then they don't have the legal right, now do they       

Which means that gun purchasing is more a privilege than a right

Now THAT would be an untrue statement