Build Your own Gun Laws : What would YOU do ?

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Background check =/= registration. Didn't we all have this discussion when the national instant check law was passed?

There has to also be a requirement that thefts be promptly reported. This prevents the "Oh, yeah, I forgot... that one got stolen a while back" defense. Otherwise, yeah, if a gun that you were last purchaser of turns up in a crime, and you never reported it stolen, then you can expect some questions that you're not going to want to answer without an attorney present.

As to the person who suggested there be some kind of $100 license that allows you access to the system to be able to run background checks for your own sales... if you're selling that many, you may want to get an FFL. Or make good friends with one who will do your transfers cheaply.

Being able to track sales/disposition of a firearm to the "last purchaser" is a de facto registration scheme. It presupposes a database tying the firearm to purchase records. So no, a background check does not equal registration, but penalties for failure to report a transfer/sale/theft do. The current NICS background check is NOT tied to a particular firearm, but the purchaser only, and thus creates no trackable chain of custody for a particular gun.A serial number trace goes to the FFL that filled out the 4473 and maybe the initial purchaser. Some good detective work might be able to tie that to a given NICS approval. Any program that ties a weapon to the owner by serial number is a registration scheme, which is one step from confiscation. No thank you.