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Originally Posted by justinstrife
This guy included. I'm not against a background check, but once the check has been done that's it. No paper-trail. It isn't the Government's business what you or I bought and when in terms of record keeping. And this should only apply to new gun purchases or even gunshows. Selling a firearm to your friend should not fall under this. As would passing your firearms down to your children or grandchildren.
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"Selling a firearm to your friend" translates to "Selling a firearm to anybody you want."
Unless "friend" is some specific legal qualification I didn't know about, to be able to sell to a "friend" implies absolute unrestricted weapon sales. Once you transfer it to a "friend" it is
gone.
You do know WHY there are background checks, right? It is to make sure guns don't fall in the wrong hands. For you to say there shouldn't be a paper trail is to say you want the background checks to be meaningless. Because once you get to decide who own the gun after you, we don't know who's hands is holding the gun next.
Did you think background checks are just a formality?
It is currently a crime in the US to transfer ownership of a gun to someone who you
know can't legally own one. It doesn't carry that much of a penalty consider the seriousness, even if the person you give the gun to then proceeds to rob a bank. It's called "Straw purchase". And it is the easiest way for a known felon to obtain a gun. No need for a black market when you can just ask your family members to buy the gun for you.