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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]Lee-Lee
(6,324 posts)Because here is where your logic fails.
Gun makers only profit from new gun sales. Much like cars, GM won't make a dime if my dad sells his 83 Chevy truck.
ALL new gun sales must go through a dealer with a background check. 100%, the first sale to a private citizen will have a background check.
So only used guns, already purchased by a person who passed a background check, right now can fall under and expanded background checks that are proposed.
Gun makers don't profit from that.
In fact, right now nobody in the gun industry does. But if you pass UBC as written then the gun dealers get to charge a transfer fee for every gun sold. Right now those feed vary region to region and dealer by dealer, but are anywhere from $15-75 per gun.
So sorry, but your conspiracy theory doesn't work. Gun makers new guns, where thy profit, are all already 100% sold with a check or to people exempt like me, who still would be. Under UBC gun dealers would actually make profits on every formerly private sale they did not before from the fees for conducting the checks.