Hate to tell you

Hate to tell you Mr Jacob. Your state has actually some of the tightest gun control restrictions in the country along with California or again Washington DC and a few others. But yet your states are the ones with the most shooting incidents. So what that tells me is control measures and elimination does not work. That just takes them away from the law abiding gun owner that would legally purchase them. That does not stop the flow of illegal or black market weapons stop Maniacs from going to gun free zones and hurting people so using this as an incident to beat the drum to put restrictions on the rest of us is a bunch of leftist crap and does not protect anyone

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BabyLonia · F

Here's the thing.... a person can buy a weapon legally making all the checks but they can then sell the gun on in a private sale to absolutely anyone without knowing if that person has a criminal past or if they are mentally incapacitated

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia private individual is not legally obligated nor do they have the resources to do background checks and it is not their duty to do so that is law enforcement

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia most gun crimes are not even committed by legally registered owners

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia most gun crimes are committed with stolen weapons or weapons brought off the black market statistically that is a fact

BabyLonia · F

@KingofBones1 most mass school shootings are committed with weapons legally owned by the perp or their family....that too is a fact

BabyLonia · F

@KingofBones1

private individual is not legally obligated nor do they have the resources to do background checks and it is not their duty to do so that is law enforcement

So where is the control if someone can sell a gun to anyone? What is the point of having any checks if any Joe Bloggs can buy a gun legally and sell it onto anyone for a profit..... do you not see a huge flaw in the system?

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia but to stop that the answer is not to ban anyone from buying guns. And you cannot expect a private individual to set up an expensive Network on their own cost to do background checks and keep a records of federal firearm sales that would basically put the private individual out of any business and restrict gun ownership as well just like Biometrics would.

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia I see the flaws in that logic as well

BabyLonia · F

@KingofBones1 i am not calling for a ban on guns...never once said that.

Honestly i dont think it is hard for a private seller to make those checks

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia actually it is because legally a private citizen cannot call law enforcement and run a background check on anyone and the ATF would require them to keep records and pay filing fees. As well as applicable taxes as a licensed gun dealer

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia retailers are required to hold at least 5 years of form 4473 and each has a $35 filing fee and they have to pay taxes on those sales as well

KingofBones1 · 46-50, M

@BabyLonia Also let's say my grandparents passed away or my father does to hand down an heirloom firearm or something that has been in the family why should we pay hundreds of dollars to do so