In my reading the last few days I've come across a number of references to opposition to universal background checks being due to belief they will lead to gun registry. So questions:
#1 What exactly is a 'universal background check' and how is it different from the NICS system we now use?
#2 By what path does the UBC lead to gun registry?
#3 Does not the very act of going through a NICS check tell the Feds you have bought 'something', even if it's not known exactly what?
By law all information about a nics checks, I believe must be destroyed after 24 hour of a "proceed".
How would such a database be kept up to date?They've already got a database of people that buy through FFL's. (If you don't think they're keeping that info, well, I don't know what to tell you).
I'd prefer there was a database of people allowed to buy firearms to the current system (no system would be best, but that's not happening). Just a simple go/no go database for people buying. That way there's no check on any individual purchase and no possible tracking of transfers. It'd also be nice for people selling/buying in individual face to face sales since you could look up if the buyer was listed as a "go" or a "no go."
When a nics check is done the feds do not know... c) how many guns you may have bought. ....
How would such a database be kept up to date?
Never said if I believe it or not, Just stated law. What would make you think that I believe they were following the law?Do you honestly believe that is occuring?
In my reading the last few days I've come across a number of references to opposition to universal background checks being due to belief they will lead to gun registry. So questions:
#1 What exactly is a 'universal background check' and how is it different from the NICS system we now use?
#2 By what path does the UBC lead to gun registry?
#3 Does not the very act of going through a NICS check tell the Feds you have bought 'something', even if it's not known exactly what?
This is the really important point to hammer: background checks accomplish absolutely nothing to further any public good, or to prevent any public harm.
1. Criminals simply bypass them (note: something they would continue to do, even if UBCs were enacted), by stealing their firearms, or purchasing them on the black market. Criminals use FFLs for all of about 10% of their firearm purchases. (And absolutely nothing would compel two criminals to self-report to NICS for a private, black-market transaction.)
2. Laws regarding straw purchases, lying on Form 4473, or even properly filling out Form 4473 as a "prohibited person", are simply not enforced. The conviction rate is abysmally low: somewhere around 2%, IIRC.
3. Because of due process rights, potential criminals cannot (and should not) be prevented from purchasing firearms due to background checks.
In my reading the last few days I've come across a number of references to opposition to universal background checks being due to belief they will lead to gun registry. So questions:
#1 What exactly is a 'universal background check' and how is it different from the NICS system we now use?
#2 By what path does the UBC lead to gun registry?
#3 Does not the very act of going through a NICS check tell the Feds you have bought 'something', even if it's not known exactly what?
Registration leads to confiscation leads to extermination.
Makes us sound like we're about to hole up in a bunker in Idaho with a million rounds of ammo.
So we make ourselves look like cooks when we say things like registration leads to extermination.....
Registration leads to confiscation leads to extermination.
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