Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Why indifference to gun violence is a national crime [View all]Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)When such rifles are hardly ever, if ever used in crime, it is a punishment to everyone to treat the buyers of such things like potential criminals.
Barret .50 rifles start at around $4000, with bullets costing around $2 a shot. Not many criminals are going to be using them as their weapon of choice. They are the playthings of people with lots of disposable income.
But we've been through all these things before.
I don't have a problem with background checks, so long as they preserve anonymous firearm ownership. Right now, thanks to the fact that private firearm sales are not tracked, we have that. I don't have a problem with universal firearm IDs to even help insure background checks on private sales, as long as the sales are not funneled through a government agency and so tracked. I also would expect, in exchange for universal licensing, that I can buy firearms through the mail without having to go through an FFL middle man, since the whole point of doing so was to force background checks, which licensing would make redundant.