Are we doing ourselves any favors repeating this 90% number?

[rrneck]

61. Here is the definition of a loophole.

http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/loophole
A loophole allows an individual or group to use some gap in the restrictions or requirements of the law or contract for personal advantage without technically breaking the law or contract.

The law doesn't address the transfer of firearms between private individuals who reside in the same state. You can't have a loophole in a law that does not address the issue.

The reason the law does not address the issue is because it is unenforceable and politically disastrous to implement. Like I said, we aren't regulating guns. We're regulating relationships. A commercial relationship is easily defined, thus fairly easy to regulate. But interpersonal relationships defy definition, thus are impossible to regulate without invading people's privacy and placing an onerous burden on people who would do no harm.

Indeed, some people will exploit the realities of life in the world for their own benefit. They are bad people. There will always be bad people who do bad things. They are a necessary albeit regrettable evil in any culture. The price of micromanaging people's interpersonal relationships would result in a cure that is much worse than the disease.

Here's an excerpt from another post (not very long) on the subject if you care to check it out.

So why don't you advocate for a "tag" that will inform the government of your relationships with people. You know, an object that will facilitate a record of who you know or meet that will last forever in a government database. That "tag" will have a serial number, and if the powers that be want to know who you know, all they have to do is pull up that number and check the log to see where that "tag" has been. Of course, nobody in the bowels of any federal agency is required to tell you when you have been tracked, but there will have to be severe penalties for non compliance on your part.