So it turns out that pro-gun proponents don't really support background checks after all

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100. Your response is innaccurate.

You specifically said the declining crime rate made expanded checks unnecessary

This is what I said:

Crime is on the decline and for my money the political will to enact background check legislation is not only weak, but too precious to waste on a problem that should be solved within the more civilized purview of liberal ideology.

Like I said, crime is on the wane. The cause doesn't matter. What does matter is that since crime is going down the political will to do something about a problem that is diminishing will be weak, and political capital doesn't come cheap.

There exists plenty of data to show that self defense accounts for a very small portion of gun deaths.

Like I said, data about what people didn't do because of what they thought might happen cannot be obtained, and ignoring that fact is a defense of ideology at the expense of people.

The records do not have to be keep for the rest of your life. Are they now? No.

From your link: Sales Records: FFLs are required to maintain records of the acquisition and sale of firearms indefinitely.

They can only go to a gun dealer once every year and the store doesn't have to account for weapons that have gone missing.

Q: To whom does an FFL report stolen or lost firearms?

A theft or loss of firearms must be reported to your local police as well as to ATF within 48 hours after the discovery. Licensees should notify ATF on the 24-hour, 7 days a week toll free line at 1-800-800-3855 and by preparing and submitting ATF Form 3310.11, Federal Firearms Licensee Theft/Loss Report.

Theft or loss of NFA firearms should also be reported to the NFA Branch immediately upon discovery.

[18 U.S.C. 923(g)(6), 27 CFR 478.39 and 479.141]
http://www.atf.gov/firearms/faq/licensees-conduct-of-business.html#report-theft-loss

Surprise inspections inside people's homes once a year is once a year too many, and that's assuming that it will stay only once a year. Note that this paragraph is contradictory. You have offered a solution to allay my concerns about civil rights abuses by telling me that your system won't actually work. That means you will allow an incursion into people's civil rights for a regulatory scheme that doesn't work. Why? Because you are defending ideology instead of people.