The thing that ticks me off about Background Checks is that the purpose is suppose to ensure that an individual who buys a gun is checked to insure that he's not a felon, or a crazy, etc. ... but what actually happens is that it turns into de facto registration of the firearm.
(Note that if someone is trying to privately sell an illegal firearm, he's sure not going to do a background check on YOU!)
The folks who respond to your background check swear upon the life of their sainted mother that they are not after your guns, so they don't keep permanent records of the transaction.
So why do they need the make, model and SERIAL NUMBER of the gun? Their sole purpose is to validate YOUR right to legally own a firearm.
Do YOU believe they don't keep a permanent database? Oh, perhaps not ALL of the data is permanently reserved .... but your name (etc) and the serial number (etc) are data items they will delete?
The Feds are like old ladies who cannot bear to throw away something they might need some day?
And do you believe them when they say:
"We are the United States of America ... why would we lie to you?"(Notice they don't say they are NOT lying to you.)
And by the way, why do we have to go through a licensed gun dealer to sell a private firearm? Why can't we do our own background check? Invasion of privacy issues? As if the feds aren't already invading our privacy.
NJT got it right:
New Jovian Thunderbolt: Grow the Second Amendment:How bout getting rid of backdoor registration? Tie gun ownership to gun owners, rather than to guns. You NICS check a person, not a purchase. And gun owner they check should be people that are about to own a gun, or might want to in the future. Does this 'gun owner' have a gun or is about to? Maybe yes, maybe no.
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