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Kamala Harris announces new office to implement ‘red flag’ gun control laws
(www.theguardian.com)
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We need actual gun controll on a federal level. Even just a register and requirement for private sales to go thru an FFL for a background check would be huge.
Until we close the private sale loophole, gun laws do t mean shit.
There's a reason "new in box" guns get sold at a markup on the private market.
Hint: people that can't but at a store will pay a premium.
I like guns, but I have too many buddies who buy guns, then sell them less than a year later and brag about how good of businessmen they are for making profit. All theyre doing is likely funneling guns to people who can't pass background checks. There's just the plausible deniability on their end that if it's not legit, it's not their fault.
There is no reason to add extra expense through an FFL. Just open the system up for all.
Oh, so you hate small businesses?
It's like $30 to run a background check thru a FFL, often less.
Like, what do you envision the process would be if people just looked themselves or potential buyer up?
Does the seller get the private information of the buyer and run it? Does the buyer just show up with a printout and a matching ID and we pretend that can't be faked?
There's a cheap and easy system already in existence that works, just use it.
Buyer gets pre-approved via NICS and is given a token Seller confirms that token with NICS
What's quicker to do?
Use the existing system or create the perfect one you're dreaming of?
Because in case you haven't noticed, this is kind of a time sensitive situation.
And I remember a decade ago people saying we can't require background checks on private sale because we should do what you're describing.
But it never happens.
Lol no it's not. None of the mass shooters that I'm aware of got their guns through private sales. So what's the time sensitive nature here?
You think the only kind of gun violence is mass shootings?
Where the fuck do you live that is a thing?
A magical forest with talking animals?