Universal Background Checks
While the term universal background checks may sound reasonable on its face, the details of what such a system would entail reveal something quite different. A mandate for truly universal background checks would require every transfer, sale, purchase, trade, gift, rental, or loan of a firearm between all private individuals to be pre-approved by the federal government. In other words, it would criminalize all private firearms transfers, even between family members or friends who have known each other all of their lives.

According to a January 2013 report from the U.S. Department of Justices National Institute of Justice, the effectiveness of universal background checks depends on requiring gun registration.[5] In other words, the only way that the government could fully enforce such a requirement would be to mandate the registration of all firearms in private possession a requirement that has been prohibited by federal law since 1986.


If my attachment works, it should give some idea of what the NRA sent out on 18 Feb. Maybe not good enough for you jOe, but I still don't think the NRA agrees with your private sale background checks concept.