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Texas shooter failed the background check to get gun legally so went to a private seller where he didn't have to pass a background check. Seems to me like this hole needs to be plugged.
Texas shooter failed the background check to get gun legally so went to a private seller where he didn't have to pass a background check. Seems to me like this hole needs to be plugged.
No, it doesn't. The government should not be imposing roadblocks on the exercise of a fundamental right.
No, it doesn't. The government should not be imposing roadblocks on the exercise of a fundamental right.
I agree, and what right is more fundamental than the right to live and not get shot? Right now the government is impeding that fundamental right by not doing more to prevent shootings.
What a perverted nation we live in where people think it should be a fundamental right to have access to high capacity weapons that are intended to end multiple lives in short time.
Nowhere does it say how they found out the sale was private. It also says they have yet to find out who the seller is. The two pieces don't go together. If you know who the last legal owner was then you know where to go.
There is no realistic or practical way to even enforce laws designed to target private sales, there is not enough manpower to monitor ALL the classified sites, and who is buying.
Plus, a good amount of used guns are sold by drug dealers...but if Govt cannot stop them from selling drugs, what hope is there they would be any more successful with guns?!!
There is no realistic or practical way to even enforce laws designed to target private sales, there is not enough manpower to monitor ALL the classified sites, and who is buying.
Plus, a good amount of used guns are sold by drug dealers...but if Govt cannot stop them from selling drugs, what hope is there they would be any more successful with guns?!!
They don't have to monitor sites. But if a privately owned gun is used in a crime, the owner is now culpable. If the sell was made legally with a background check, the previous owner is off the hook for how the gun was used. If he reports it stolen, he is also off the hook. But if the gun is transferred to another person without a background check and that person used the gun in a crime, the original owner is at fault as he should be.
There is no realistic or practical way to even enforce laws designed to target private sales, there is not enough manpower to monitor ALL the classified sites, and who is buying.
Plus, a good amount of used guns are sold by drug dealers...but if Govt cannot stop them from selling drugs, what hope is there they would be any more successful with guns?!!
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