#2 should raise the hairs on the back of your neck!! Talk about invasion of privacy: 2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

"unnecessary legal barriers"? How about OUR RIGHTS?

Who runs the background check system?

This is a HUGE open door to no more privacy, especially when it's combined with #16 as has been previously mentioned.

C'mon people: these pragmatic, outcome-based rationales for stripping us of our rights is 'death by 1000 cuts' and will not end well for us citizens. Study history. Especially study the history of Germany. One little step at a time. One little, seemingly unrelated freedom that was given up. To what end?