The more difficult you make it to legally buy and sell guns, the more
you will accelerate the already budding "build your own gun" movement.
It's easier than you might think and the result can be very credible,
and totally untracable.
Wayne, I guess I am just hung up on the "making it more difficult"
thing. Having to submit to a background check may be a minor
inconvenience for some but if it helps save a few innocent lifes it
seems a small price to pay that benefits our society as a whole. It
certainly can't hurt.
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How much are you (we) willing to pay per "innocent life saved"? One
million dollars each, two million, ten million? It's difficult to put
a price on such things, but my estimate is that there are far more
cost effective ways to save lives. Are drug dealers and gang bangers
innocent lives? Personally I think not. What about the unintended
consequences such as forcing gun sales and ownership further
underground, or further inspiring a nascent "build your own
untraceable" gun movement? And then there's the enforcement issue. We
know that existing laws are not being enforced for various reasons.
What's going to change that? My sense is that you're willing to
inconvenience every single law abiding gun owner, the vast majority,
for some totally intangible, unmeasurable and dubious benefit.
IAFIS and now NGI
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