If you really feel background checks are “pointless”, then it should be cool to remove them, right?
However I doubt you really feel that way.
Are they perfect? No, but it certainly is doing SOMETHING, otherwise why have it?
There is some concern of prohibited people “tricking” honest sellers into selling to them. But I can say that most of the community is rather vigilant against this. You look like a meth-head or smell like weed, they are going to probably decline the sale (you can’t use weed and buy guns). I don’t think there is much hard data to back up this idea.
There has been data to back up that criminals get their guns from the black market and from friends and family - people who have a pretty idea their Juggalo cousin or boy friend is maybe up to some shady stuff. They don’t care.
I could live with requiring private sales go through the NICS check, but the people already selling guns to prohibited people or buying them for these people aren’t going to follow that law either.
Canada doesn’t have this problem it appears due to the different process.
