Going to ban private transfer? Some are saying.
They might make it illegal, but how will that stop it? Such transactions occur daily in areas where they are already banned.
It doesn't work, but there is a rollicking trade in black market guns.
All it will do, and
pay attention here, is provide the government with a growing list of who has what, where, and we know where such databases end up. History provides that answer. The BATFE was making a database of NICS checks during the Clinton Administration. Do you think they really stopped or destroyed that? I have no faith that they did whatsoever.
All crap like this does is engender contempt for the government from a new group of people, and contempt for the law as well. That is not a good road to go down.
BTW, I remember people buying a gun through the mail, no paperwork, and the only government involvement was the postman delivering the check to the merchant, and then the gun to the buyer. There were no mass shootings in those days. Maybe the real problem isn't guns.
