Reply #38: Yes and no [View All]

[ac2007]

The short answer to your question is: Yes.

Long answer:

What you describe is already illegal. And me allowing anything is beside the point. The law makes it clear under what narrow circumstances a private person may sell a firearm to another. It is already a crime to knowingly do so to someone who is prohibited.

Also realize there is nothing stopping anyone from voluntarily going through NICS today via an FFL. I want it to remain exactly that: voluntary.

Yes, it is possible for a prohibited person to acquire a firearm in violation of the law in a private sale. The key here is they would know they are prohibited and can be held criminally liable if caught with the gun. Yes, they may go on a shooting spree with such an arm. How often has this happened?

The question you should be considering is why is it acceptable or desirable to demand diminishing out rights and freedoms as a solution to a non-problem? Democrats cry about government overreach and stripping of our rights and freedoms in other areas and fight back but then turn around and demand even more government control in areas of life they feel uncomfortable with. Why is that?

Our rights are not a buffet to pick and choose from. We have to take all of them, even the ones we don't like.

Private party sales are already a rare event. And they can be regulated by the States. And are. Leave it there.

Or does the idea that private citizens can do with their guns as they choose within the bounds of the law without government oversight bother you? I honestly think that is what it is with a lot of folks. I think they are bothered that people are free to do with guns as they see fit without the government acting as nanny and overseer to ensure they are doing the right thing by their definition.