A few solutions to reducing gun violence.

[Lee-Lee]

4. One change to the first is mandated prosecution of those who straw purchase or try to buy illegally

Because prosecution rates for cases of straw purchases are horribly low with the BATF rarely actually doing it. I handed them a fully documented case wen I was a deputy and they never acted once they realized she didn't have any ties to bigger crime they could exploit her to investigate.

Hell, the girlfriend who bought the guns for Columbine was never prosecuted.

On top of that less than 1% of people who commit a Federal Felony attempting to buy a gun who get denied are prosecuted. And unless the denial was an error they committed perjury by signing the form swearing they had no disqualifying history before the background check call was made.

So a felon or person with restraining order or history of mental health problems commission a crime attempting to buy a gun and they are just sent back out on the street with no intervention, still wanting a gun.

In 2010 over 80,000 people were denied by the NICS system. Only 44 were prosecuted. The rest were prohibited persons known to have just commited an easily prosecuted crime, actively seeing firearms, let go free with no action.