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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mugsy" data-source="post: 2519301" data-attributes="member: 18914">Background checks for every purchase sounds like a nice idea but is actually fraught with problems in practice.  Under the current system one must first transfer the weapon to an FFL in order to run a background check on the purchaser making it very impractical for folks that live far from an FFL or in areas where government action (ala Chicago) has purposefully limited FFLs.  IF a system was in place that anyone (i.e. common citizens) could use without excessive procedural or financial burden, perhaps that would be worth discussing.  Nothing like that has ever been proposed - and even though that would be more acceptable to private sellers it still presents privacy issues for the buyer as well as the basic problem of restricting legitimate trade of private property between the vast majority, i.e. completely legitimate sellers and buyers, to restrict a few nefarious individuals.On top of that many people, with justification, see grave Constitutional issues with any restrictions on gun sales.  So before blithely supporting such a "common sense idea" please explain exactly how/when/via what means such a system would work - who could access it, under what circumstances, at what cost, etc.  Who keeps records?  of what exactly - just that it was accessed or details like who bought exactly when and where it is going, etc.</blockquote>