Many Gun Owners are Hidden Criminals and that's WHY I Support Gun Control Laws

[shadowrider]

26. Good response with no snark. If I may respond:

Under existing federal law, unlicensed gun sellers are allowed to sell weapons without a background check of the buyer at gun shows and other private sales. Paradoxically, only licensed dealers are required to conduct such background checks, which gun control advocates see as crucial in cutting off the supply of weapons to criminals and mentally unstable individuals. The NRA strongly opposes legislation that would close this glaring loophole by requiring background checks for all gun sales.

>>> Loopholes are created by uninformed legislators who pat themselves on the back for a job well done without bothering to look at unintended consequences. Don't get upset with the NRA, get upset with shortsighted legislators and lobby them to change the inadequate laws they've passed.

The NRA has strongly opposed legislation to prohibit the sale of guns to people on the federal government's terrorist watch list. Under current law, a suspected terrorist can be put on the no-fly list and be kept off a plane, but can't be prevented from buying a gun.

>>> There is no known mechanism which is available to the public so they know 1) How they got on the list and 2) There is no mechanism known to the public to remove their name from the list. Allowing the terror watch list to be used as a mechanism to deny gun ownership opens the door to abuse by those in power.

The NRA has made several attempts to usher through Congress an "ATF reform bill" that would make it much harder – some say virtually impossible – to revoke the gun-selling licenses of crooked dealers. If the bill passed – and the NRA is expected to try again soon – the ATF would have to prove the dealer's state of mind, in terms of his or her premeditated intention to break the law.

>>> If you approve people being put on the terror watch list and being denied gun ownership simply because someone might question their state of mind, what's wrong with having to do the same to dealers?

Seems to me you want it both ways.

Virtually impossible is a relative term. Government can pass any law they want to get around "virtually impossible".

Just my opinion, yours may vary.