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Associations Between Gun Shows and Firearm Deaths and Injuries

TO THE EDITOR: As Xu correctly states in a previous comment on Matthay and colleagues' article (1), it is already a federal crime for both private individuals and businesses to sell a firearm across state borders without a background check. It is also illegal for a person to buy a gun in a state where he or she does not maintain a residence. Again, as Xu correctly states, a California resident cannot drive to Nevada, buy a firearm, and then travel back to California: Such a transaction is already illegal. If, for example, a California resident wants to buy a gun from a seller from Nevada, the California resident and the Nevada gun seller must go through several steps. First, the California resident contacts a local dealer with a Federal Firearms License (for example, a local gun store where a background check can be done) and tells the dealer that he or she wants to buy an out-of-state gun. Next, the California resident pays the Nevada gun seller who then transfers the gun to the California gun store designated by the buyer, where a background check will be completed. For this, the California resident must pay another fee. The entire argument of Matthay and colleagues' article, which infers that California residents are travelling across state borders to legally buy guns at Nevada guns shows, is thus untrue. It is a shame that Annals of Internal Medicine would publish such a clearly politically motivated article that can be debunked at a glance.