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Have I got this right about President Obama's modest proposals on gun control?

When the NRA suggested universal background check might be used by the government to form an illegal registry, it was a crazy conspiracy theory. What he wants instead is for the additional ATF and FBI agents to use that data to pore through a database to detect illegal gun sales, checking the name and address of private sellers, and to whom they've sold the guns (plus all their personal data). The database isn't a registry?

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  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Okay, so you say the ATF pore through a database checking the names and address of private sellers, and to whom they've sold the guns to (plus all their personal data), and you don't call that a firearm registry? If the ATF, and the FBI has a database with the names, addresses, and the personal data of everyone who sells or purchases a firearm, what would you call it if not a registry of everyone purchasing and selling firearms? Wouldn't this give them the names, addresses, and personal data to everyone who has bought or sold a firearm, and where those firearms were?

    Now, how would a universal background check ever reduce violent crime in anyway? I would like for you to answer that! The last three mass murders, and the largest mass murder in the US were committed with firearms purchased legally, and the one purchasing them had background checks run on them, but it didn't prevent those mass murders from happening, now did it?

    That is exactly what the real American citizens don't want the government knowing. Every time any government has ever known who owns firearms and where they are located it has be shortly followed by the confiscations of those firearms, and by force if necessary. That is the main reason why the people do NOT want the government to have this information.

    These kind of stupid laws is what makes criminals out of law abiding citizens. Most of the law abiding firearm owners I know are not going to get a background check done on their son when he gives his son/daughter, or grandson/granddaughter one of their firearms. In one state that passed this "Universal Background Check" law, 58 of the 64 counties sheriffs said they will not arrest anyone breaking this unconstitutional law. On top of that 3 of the state congress ring leaders that were responsible for this law being passed were recalled and thrown out of office.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Anyone that buys a gun and has the required telephone check by an FFA licensed dealer is on the list. Private guns sales do not require FFA checks and thus there is no list or registry. Just because a gun sale is not on the background check list doesn't make it illegal.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Your question is literally the most retarded crap I have ever seen, man! Go to Yale or Harvard if you have an obssession with politics.

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