UPDATED: Shots fired with AK-47 hit 2 homes in Montville Twp.

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45. There are three weak links that make the law less effective than it could be

One is the lack of a means in most states for people who do not have a Type 01 Federal Firearms License to check the background of a prospective buyer of a used firearm. That could be fixed with legislation.

Second, incomplete data in the National Instant Check System (NICS) database. The President is addressing that, but it will require help from Congress.

Third, there is no systematic prosecution of people who fail a NICS check when they are attempting to buy a firearm. In every case of a bona fide rejection in NICS, the person who was attempting to buy a firearm committed a crime just by making a false statement on the paper form that he or she completed and signed under penalty of perjury. Very few people who do that are actually prosecuted - A conviction can result in a five year sentence in federal prison.

Address those three problems, and the laws would be a whole lot more effective.

...stopping the manufacturing of obscene numbers of guns for sale for anyone that has the money, from international gun runners, to some nut on the internet with a stolen credit card.

I think you have a misconception about Internet sales of firearms. Only a federal firearms licensee can have a firearm shipped directly to him or her without having the transaction go through a federal firearms licensee.

As to the number of firearms that are manufactured, that is simply supply and demand in action. Doing a better job of screening buyers as I outlined above would reduce demand only slightly, because a large majority of people who buy firearms never commit crimes with them.