I put this on another forum but just for the sake of discussion I'll drop it here, it seems to fit.
What would you say to having a FOID card like Illinois and some of the other blue states? Here is how it should work in my mind.
1) We apply for a card.
2) They run a background check just like for an NFA weapon.
3) We get a card issued.
4) Then we could go to whatever FFL dealer and find the gun we want.
5) Said FFL dealer calls or logs in and makes sure that FOID card is still valid.
6) Pay money for said gun and leave with it.
No more need for Form 4473s, answering questions, recording make, model or S/N of weapon purchased since background checked out and card is confirmed as still valid. If you think about this it could in all reality do away with the need for NFA as we know it today. It would require that the alphabet agencies share info like they are purportedly going to under Obama's executive order. It would also require that Federal, State and Municipal courts participate in updating the information in the system. The mental health thing is going to be more difficult to do without violating constitutional rights to privacy, but if a court has adjudicated someone as being ineligible that would be covered by the court reporting.
They are going to try and make this mandatory on personal sales too. So there is going to have to be a method for this. It just seems that it would be logical to do away with the repetitive calls to the ATF for a check on every 4473. Also there is no reason in my mind to for any gun specific information to be involved in determining whether someone is eligible to have a gun. Would the ATF need all the resources they do once this is up and running? So a FFL might be more open to doing the check for private individuals if he didn't have as much paperwork to do and the record of the check being performed was kept at the federal level.
They are talking about guns coming in from areas with "lax" gun control being a problem and private sales being a "loophole". Okay if we plug that, and make it an honest and broad true/false, pass/fail condition as to whether a transfer goes through, then what difference does it make whether the transfer is a rifle, shotgun or handgun? .22LR or .50BMG or anything in between? It doesn't! A criminal isn't allowed to have any of them, so if we can affirm one's background it just doesn't matter. Therefore there is no reason to have a registry or ANY recordation of firearm information. How's that for compromise?
Like I said, I don't like this idea at all, but I figure it's coming anyway and what we are likely to get will be far worse.
What would you say to having a FOID card like Illinois and some of the other blue states? Here is how it should work in my mind.
1) We apply for a card.
2) They run a background check just like for an NFA weapon.
3) We get a card issued.
4) Then we could go to whatever FFL dealer and find the gun we want.
5) Said FFL dealer calls or logs in and makes sure that FOID card is still valid.
6) Pay money for said gun and leave with it.
No more need for Form 4473s, answering questions, recording make, model or S/N of weapon purchased since background checked out and card is confirmed as still valid. If you think about this it could in all reality do away with the need for NFA as we know it today. It would require that the alphabet agencies share info like they are purportedly going to under Obama's executive order. It would also require that Federal, State and Municipal courts participate in updating the information in the system. The mental health thing is going to be more difficult to do without violating constitutional rights to privacy, but if a court has adjudicated someone as being ineligible that would be covered by the court reporting.
They are going to try and make this mandatory on personal sales too. So there is going to have to be a method for this. It just seems that it would be logical to do away with the repetitive calls to the ATF for a check on every 4473. Also there is no reason in my mind to for any gun specific information to be involved in determining whether someone is eligible to have a gun. Would the ATF need all the resources they do once this is up and running? So a FFL might be more open to doing the check for private individuals if he didn't have as much paperwork to do and the record of the check being performed was kept at the federal level.
They are talking about guns coming in from areas with "lax" gun control being a problem and private sales being a "loophole". Okay if we plug that, and make it an honest and broad true/false, pass/fail condition as to whether a transfer goes through, then what difference does it make whether the transfer is a rifle, shotgun or handgun? .22LR or .50BMG or anything in between? It doesn't! A criminal isn't allowed to have any of them, so if we can affirm one's background it just doesn't matter. Therefore there is no reason to have a registry or ANY recordation of firearm information. How's that for compromise?
Like I said, I don't like this idea at all, but I figure it's coming anyway and what we are likely to get will be far worse.
