Exactly.MLeake said:I fear background checks and training requirements because they allow a tightening of the noose on the Second Amendment; I fear background checks and training requirements because they allow a way for the political equivalent of the country club set to keep "those people" from becoming members of the right to bear arms club; I fear background checks and training requirements because they turn a right into a privilege.
Instead of positing that the only people who fear background checks are those with criminal histories, I would posit that the only people who do not fear background checks are the ones who have not thought it through.
I'll take required background checks over lower capacity magazines everyday. I have no criminal record so it will not affect me at all. I'm assuming some people here must have one as they are so against being screened. Maybe they shouldn't own guns anyway.
MLeake said:I fear background checks and training requirements because they allow a tightening of the noose on the Second Amendment; I fear background checks and training requirements because they allow a way for the political equivalent of the country club set to keep "those people" from becoming members of the right to bear arms club; I fear background checks and training requirements because they turn a right into a privilege.
Instead of positing that the only people who fear background checks are those with criminal histories, I would posit that the only people who do not fear background checks are the ones who have not thought it through.
No they don't. The information called into NICS does not include any description of the firearm other than type (handgun/long gun/other). Furthermore, the records are destroyed within 24 hours of a completed check.Background checks literately registers every firearm you purchase to you.
Is the FFL not required to keep all records of sales and transfers? If so there is a paper trail all the way from the seller to the buyer.
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apom said:I'll take required background checks over lower capacity magazines everyday. I have no criminal record so it will not affect me at all. I'm assuming some people here must have one as they are so against being screened. Maybe they shouldn't own guns anyway.
From the President's Gun Violence Plan:
Congress should pass legislation that goes beyond just closing the “gun show loophole” to require background checks for all firearm sales, with limited, common-sense exceptions for cases like certain transfers between family members and temporary transfers for hunting and sporting purposes.
There is, but it would be very difficult in most cases to collate into a database. Furthermore, federal law prohibits the ATF from doing so.Is the FFL not required to keep all records of sales and transfers? If so there is a paper trail all the way from the seller to the buyer.
I just got it, too. You're right. It suggests that FFL's encourage folks to go through them rather than transferring the guns between individuals.A link to this letter hit my inbox this afternoon.