Reply #36: and what you said was "ban the classifieds"

[iverglas]

You seem to have realized how moronic that was, given your decision to ignore it now.

They are no longer private, they become regulated by the government. It effectively turns every person who wishes to sell his private property to another person into a low-level version of a federally licensed dealer.

No, they are still private. Private transactions.

What they are not is SECRET.

That's regardless of the fact that "proof" of eligibility is easily forged to get past the average gun owner would would be accepting the "proof."

No, the average gun owner would be having the standard NICS background check done. (This certainly wouldn't approach adequate regulation of private sales, to my own mind, since there would still be no record, but it's what's available now in the US and requiring it would be something better than nothing.)

Clearer now?