Originally Posted By: King Brown
Craig, see your point but what interests me is not the gnat's eyelash of prosecutions, it's the number of refusals as a result of background checks.

Also, the background check has nothing to do with who's on the hook for murder with a previously owned gun. That's registration, passing from owner to owner.



I'd think your two point are somewhat related King. If an individual is known to have sold a firearm that was later used in a crime, there could be a better than fair chance that a refusal, at least delay, comes up the next time they want to buy a gun.

I'd tend to suspect that background checks for private sales is a paper trail or a form of defacto registration. I'm not thinking criminals should have guns, only that the facts and the strong encouragement to compromise do not address the criminals or safety interest of the public. It seems to have an ideological purpose though.