As far as I'm concerned, NC has already been sold-out. You must have the local sheriff's permission to buy a handgun. They also require fingerprints,and permission to view medical records! The Sheriff doesn't have to let you know whether or not he'll approve you for 90 days. How's that for a waiting period, 90 days! You have to do this even for private sales! I wasn't aware of this until I went to a gun show in Charlotte NC a week and a half ago. They had a table setup where you could ask legal questions, and every few minutes they announced over the PA the fact that in order to buy a handgun, you had to have permission from the local Sheriff, even to buy from a private individual. Wow, and I thought SC was terribly anti-gun.
I talked to an very old (he might have even been older than me) black Korean vet who was at the show with his 8 year-old great-grandson. He was asking for help deciding which 22 repeater rifle to buy. I found a dealer with a new Marlin Model 60 for him for even less than I paid for my used one. I filled-out the 4473, for him (except his signature, of course) because he couldn't see well enough close-up to write. He was very happy, and his great-grandson was even happier. That was nice to see a pair of black males exercising their constitutional rights. I've spent half of my life during segregation and the second half with integration, but that still doesn't explain to me why I'm always so happy to see a black man with a (legal) gun, whether at the range or at a show. I guess it's part of the new attitude I've picked-up this year that we're just serfs until we exercise our rights and have the tools to protect those rights. I hope the kid is having fun with his rifle. I wish I had a picture of him carrying the rifle out of the show with his arms wrapped around it and the smile on his face. Jesse Jackson can talk about freedom, but what I saw that day WAS freedom.