COLCHESTER, Vt. -
For seven years, the Green Mountain Gun Show Trail has been conducting events across Vermont.
It's a place where licensed and un-licensed dealers can sell weapons.
Before, only those registered had to conduct FBI background checks.
But this year it's different.
Even un-licensed dealers need to follow that policy.
"We'll be running a background check on the people that will be buying those guns," said organizer Bill Borchers.
A new rule that Borchers hopes will keep people safe.
"Nobody wants to sell a gun to a felon," said Borchers.
The announcement comes before Borchers' first gun show of 2013 this weekend in South Burlington.
He held a news conference Thursday because of the attention gun shows have received since the shootings in Colorado and Connecticut.
"You have to be part of the solution, you can't be part of the problem," said Borchers.
Borchers does admit, it's not easy to stop every sale during gun shows, because it's not illegal to sell a gun without a background check.
The event will have paid security.
He says the plan to also monitor the parking lot and ask anyone who breaks the new policy to leave.
But Borchers says lawmakers need to do their part to help close loopholes.
"First of all I don't believe they should be out in the flea markets and I don't think they should be out in a tag sale. It's an open invitation for the wrong people to buy the guns," said Borchers.
The gun show will run this weekend at the South Burlington Holiday Inn on Saturday from 9 until 5 and on Sunday from 9 to 3.
