I’m not talking about theft, or even people who worry about the idea of selling a gun to a total stranger. There are plenty of people out there who don’t care who they sell a gun to because it’s not their problem. They take their money an leave. The issue is federal law CREATES the straw purchase paradigm. I would never sell to a private buyer I didn’t know personally, and would record any sale with the state even if it isn’t required. But to deny that there aren’t people out there with the balls to make a living doing straw purchases is to believe in a fairytale. What percentage of guns end up in straw purchases/unrecorded private sales to strangers? We’ll never know because the NRA spends millions ensuring that any kind of system that would track that sort of thing, and do NO harm to responsible law abiding gun owners, never gets implemented.
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