Don't know what the current magic number is, but car dealer status used to be achieved when you sold more than eight cars a year here in Colorado. At that point you had to get all licensed and permitted and okayed and blessed by the State. In nomine Ford, et GM, et spiritu Dodge, amen.
Let alone by lesser Deities like cities and counties.
I guess the suthorities figured it took the average car-flipper or shade tree mechanic a month and a half to get a junker marketable. (12 ÷ 8 = 1.5 months.) Obviously, the notorious car dealer loophole.
WRT firearms, I see a kind of push-pull conflict of interest. FFL dealers naturally want to maintain the whole "dealer" concept since it's their rice bowl, but setting a low magical number might push too many people into "dealership" status, thus increasing their competition.
I personally think the magic number should be exactly 7,860 firearms per year. That works out to 655 per month.
But I also personally think that "dealership" requirements should be eliminated altogether as a restraint of trade. Or, "infringement," if you will.
Not that it would have happened, but I wouldn't have minded hearing this question at that recent little piece of Presidential puffery: "Mr. President, what does the word "infringed" mean?"
He's a "constitutional scholar," but I'm a fairly accomplished native English speaker, so I'd like to hear how he views that word.
However, I realize that nowadays being a native English speaker may disqualify me from making comments. I mean, for all I know, maybe there's some Latin or Spanish derivation of the roots of that word meaning something else besides "abridged" or "tinkered with" or something. Or perhaps the phrase "shall not be" is an idiomatic Sanskrit phrase for "shall be." After all, what do I know?
No Left Turn Terry now retires from the field of battle to watch the smoke and dust clouds rise.
