Rick Warren: Son Used Unregistered Gun in Suicide.

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40. It's too easy to circumvent the law via internet sales; the ATF doesn't have enough resources.

If you're going to allow internet sales, we'll need a lot more resources for law enforcement to follow up on those sales and make sure they are going through licensed dealers with background checks. But we can't even get enough money for school lunches. The internet allows criminal/insane buyers to easily find unscrupulous sellers who will mail stuff anonymously anywhere. Like I said, it is easy enough to find the ad and block it; it is really hard to confirm all those sales complied with the law. With a storefront, ATF agents can just walk in the store and see what is going on. Some guy selling guns over the internet from some undisclosed location is a lot harder to inspect. It is much easier and cheaper to police gun sales with a blanket ban on internet gun sales. It's not like there are not enough gun stores around for law abiding people to get their guns. And you should not be able to create a stockpile of ammo and magazines through no-questions-asked internet purchases, like the Aurora shooter did, as freshwest describes.

But leaving that aside, again, it is really weird that Rick Warren would know how his son got the gun. Why do you think the story is bullshit? What do you think happened?