No right is absolute

[krispos42]

181. Background checks for all?

Well, aside from the inconvenience of having to myself and my customer/vendor to an FLL and pay a fee to the person doing the background check, not much.

Of course, there's also the minor discomforting fact that now there's de facto gun registration in the country, which I find unpleasant and worrisome. But that can be worked around, I suppose, in a legislative fashion by not having a guns make, model, or serial number on the transfer form.


However, this idea that you are proposing in the wake of the Colorado shooting is one that would not, at all, have affected the outcome a single iota because he did not buy his guns privately. I just want you to be aware of this.




I take the Brady Campaign numbers with a grain of salt about mass shootings; they attempted to draw a correlation between concealed pistol permittees with mass shootings, only to find out upon examination of their supporting document that more than half of the cases cited were done in the permittee's house. Obviously, one's ability to legally and routinely carrying a concealed pistol in public has zilch to do with a person deciding to gun down his family and then blow his brains out.

I believe they also extend the definition of "children" up to age 19, which is of course very misleading.