federal background checks are a gross abuse of federal power and are generally ineffective...the more local the police authority that performs background checks, the more effective the information actually revealed becomes...this fact is no better illustrated than new york state's sullivan law, which regulates civilian possession of handguns...in order to possess a handgun in new york state, one submits a permit application to ones local police authority, where the background check process begins...it is a bottom up process that ends at the federal level...whereas the present federal based system is ass backwards and only reveals that information that has been uploaded to the fbi data base...just imagine if the parkland murderer would have first had to have the approval of his local police authority before taking possession of his ar or any other firearm...

Last edited by ed good; 02/25/18 06:34 PM.
keep it simple and keep it safe...