Reply #89: There is no federal registry

[pipoman]

of firearm owners, the records are purged every, what is it 30 days? I thought the NICS was a mistake when enacted....gun registry and all. Since I have used the system and find it completely acceptable and has been quite effective as long as the records are purged, which they are.

This is a state by state issue, DLs aren't federal, nor should they be IMHO. Why not just a foid card like IL? The overwhelming majority of people would feel that carrying around a scarlet letter whether on the face of or encoded in your dl info is unacceptable. This would require a DL program each time someone becomes ineligible regardless the reason which I find patently offensive from a civil liberties standpoint.

Again this is simple. The system is already there. It is already funded at the federal level. The authority as the licensing agents for ffl dealers allows for a very simple enactment of ffl license law requiring ffl dealers to conduct private sale nics checks for a small fee which the ffl keeps entirely, say $20. No matter the solution we must agree that this is a state issue, not a federal issue? Right now every single state in the country is HURTING for money. The system you are talking about would cost millions at the state level to accomplish. It simply isn't even reasonable to expect this will ever happen beyond some state passing some similar system, but I can tell you my state isn't looking for a way to spend more..