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Originally Posted by Lost Cause
Don, there already are restrictions, background checks, and a registration of sorts!
First you must posess a valid I.D. In your state, second pass a criminal background check, and third fill out a form 4473 when you purchase a firearm. That form will be kept by the dealer and at some point the ATF will come in and check them. The bachround check is instantly done over the phone.
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Originally Posted by ganbaru
Even in Alabama or thoses gun show? I thought than one could get his gun right away after bare minimum check ( if any) there.
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This. In most states you can buy a gun second hand (and at gun shows) without filling out
any paperwork
whatsoever(and no background checks either). With a licensed gun dealer, you do indeed have to fill out paperwork and have a criminal background check, however none of that paperwork entails a test of how
sane you are. Still, much better then nothing. There are no penalties on selling a gun second hand to a criminal, as far as I'm aware.
If registration was properly enforced, I think you'd go a long way to keeping guns out of the hands of the wrong people.
@Emeiz_hyde: Absolutely agree.