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Yes but that could be done away with without establishing any kind of registry, that is my point.
How can you prevent people purchasing weapons from private individuals, without a background check and without any records of the sale/purchase? It cannot be done, and I will not purchase a firearm any other way.
Of course it goes back to guns. . .Where we have more guns (Montana) we have more suicides. More guns, easier access to guns, means more deaths from suicides. Mental health is a component but a second component of the issue is ensuring that guns are not given to the wrong people and that people with guns are required to have them secured or face VERY tough punishment.
Well for starters, I think if you want to blow your brains out that's your right.
But I'm pretty sure Japan has one of the highest, if not the highest suicide rate in the world. That gun infested hellhole.
How can you prevent people purchasing weapons from private individuals, without a background check and without any records of the sale/purchase? It cannot be done, and I will not purchase a firearm any other way.
What I mean is that it can be outlawed, not prevented.
What you claim is exactly the reason why a registry will not work.
Looking at page 4, the paragraph 'Risk and Protective Factors', also interesting that it mentions the 'social policies that maintain high levels of economic or social inequality among groups in society' . Also above that, the lack of data on gun ownership that a national gun registry would address.
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'...the US rate of firearm-related deaths is the highest among industrialized countries.'
What constitutes an assault weapon? Why should they be banned? Are they more deadly or powerful than all other guns on the market?
... Beretta 92FS. Standard sidearm of the military and the Los Angeles Police Department.
I don't know about the LAPD, but most police departments have switched to the Glock 17. The 92 isn't nearly as popular with the police and military as it used to be.
Actually, that's one I've been meaning to add to the collection.
How did the detective in "another city" have that serial number? If the gun was used in a crime, shouldn't it be in evidence somewhere? If it isn't in evidence, how will he know the serial number?
What if the receiver was built at home and has no serial number? If you don't know, that is the receiver for a Beretta 92FS. Standard sidearm of the military and the Los Angeles Police Department.
While being the standard sidearm for the Air Force, Navy, and Army, the Beretta 92F (M9) only saw limited use in the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps uses a modified version of the M1911, which is now designated as the M45A1 Close Quarters Battle Pistol (CQBP).
Why wouldn't they? Why wouldn't most? According to polls most gun owners support background checks and gun control.
It's not my job to 'enlighten you' and I don't set up databases; do you? What program would you write to set it all up?
Why wouldn't they? Because historically gun registration has always been followed by gun confiscation and people don't trust the government.
It would cost hundreds of millions of dollars for the government to setup the database, build the datacenter to house the information, and the backups, and the off site backups, secure the facility and vett the staff, hire the staff, and then many, many, manyt, millions more to gather the data, and more millions to keep it up to date and confirm it's accurate.
Next you'd want to match ballistics to the guns, more hundreds of millions of constantly changing datapoints that would need to be kept up to date, and impossible to track. Do you know how long it takes to change a barrel on a semi auto pistol? About 10 seconds, depending on the gun, and you can buy as many as you want through the mail. Do you know that the more a gun is shot the more the barrel wears and is changed until the ballistics will no longer match.
I'm sure you'd also want to match up cases to guns, but again just like bullets those markings can be easily changed by swapping parts or a few seconds with a file and will change over time.
And it all hinges on citizens volunteering to bring in all of their firearms for testing, which isn't going to happen. In the end billions of dollars wasted on a project doomed from the start.
The real world isn't CSI-NY.
But hey, it's federal money so it's free, right?
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