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by chasfm11
Fri Apr 12, 2024 9:18 am
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Background Checks Expanded
Replies: 12
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Re: Background Checks Expanded

So here is a question. If I sell my car, am I engaged in the "business" of auto selling? If I sell my old sofa or desk, am i a furniture seller? Most of non-table sellers that I have seen at gun shows are individuals selling their own guns, not guns they specifically acquired for resale. The same could probably be said for anyone selling a gun on this forum. Are you then a firearm dealer?

I did not read the article because I refuse to deal with the NYT paywall. But i heard the same reports on the radio and the justice department spokesperson defending the expansion as preventing 3 million people who should not have guns from getting them. I assume that number comes from the reject rate on the current background check system. Conversely, what is the number of people who should not have gotten guns under the current rules but got them anyway do to the lax reporting of those individual situations by various governmental entities who had that information? I would bet that few of those in inpatient mental health facilities have their names in the background check data base. I'm guessing that there are more convicted felons with "clean" records in that data base than there are with their data included. And then there is the whole current justice system which doesn't prosecute a lot of the violent offenders. Are they blocked from gun purchases? I doubt it.

This is more propaganda.

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