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How would it keep nutjobs from getting guns legally? How does an administrative background check identify nutjobs, specifically the ones that are going to go on murderous rampages? And how does this help anything if they can manage to get one illegally?
When someone says something to the effect of "it's a start", it translates to me as "I know of no way to actually get from A to B."
Well I'm no expert on this but I believe most major mental illness is present by the time someone is a teenager. If/when a court rules someone is mentally unstable their data should be entered into NICS and subsequent gun sales should be disallowed.
I disagree with this approach. Mental health is a variable. You don't come down with a cold as a teenager, and have a cold the rest of your life do you?
And the even bigger part of the puzzle is meds to treat such conditions. Some of them trigger some really abnormal behavior, and is what we should be concerned with.
Personally, I see no issue in expanding NICS to private sales so long as we expand the capacity of NICS to ensure private citizens can call and get checks done in an expeditious fashion. In the last few weeks NICS was flooded with calls due to elevated gun sales and some folks were waiting upwards on an hour on hold for NICS.
I agree with this statement.
However, I also would like to make sure that private citizen sales aren't charged for NICS checks as well.
If we're going to expand this, it should be for the right reasons and not a means for the government to make extra cash.
However, I also would like to make sure that private citizen sales aren't charged for NICS checks as well.
Not necessarily, as they could go by receipts showing you transferred the gun legally. Granted, whatever system they use to do the background checks(4473's, NICS) will be used to build a de facto registry.
You do have a receipts for all your guns showing you bought them before the private sale ban went into effect, don't you?
Why not? Make the purchaser pay for it. There are lots of checks and application fees that work like that.
-Dan.
It's not fair to make the seller or purchaser pay an arbitrary fee (for something that's likely computer-based and involves very little human intervention anyway), just as a way for the government to make extra money.
If Obama wants this done, let him fund it out of the tax revenue he's already got. Speaking as a software developer, it's not that hard to write a web/WCF service that would pull records based on social security numbers, and return a boolean value based on a pre-defined set of rules.
Heck, Obama, if you're reading this, hire me as a consultant (Fee is $85/hour), have your people tell me where the database is at, and I'll have it done for you in a week.
Serious mental illnesses typically manifest in late teens to early 20s. People don't just become schizophrenic at 47.
Since 1993, the Brady law has required background checks on gun sales to private citizens. However, background checks can only be performed by licensed gun dealers and its estimated that forty percent of gun sales are done without a background check. If we are to keep guns out of the hands of unstable individuals, isn't it time we demand 100 percent screening?
Why not just ban private sales altogether? If you aren't a commercial vendor, you shouldn't be selling or giving any guns to anyone in the first place.
legally being the key word there.Background checks aren't any more perfect than any other licensing process. But it's a start, and it would keep nutjobs and felons from legally getting guns.
Why shouldn't I be able to sell my own guns? That doesn't make sense. Just require I document it and check to make sure the buyer is valid.
Well, as a software developer, I'm sure you appreciate the effort needed to tie together multiple sources of data and to be able to handle what could very well be sizeable numbers of transactions per day.
Or maybe you don't.
-Dan.
Since 1993, the Brady law has required background checks on gun sales to private citizens. However, background checks can only be performed by licensed gun dealers and its estimated that forty percent of gun sales are done without a background check. If we are to keep guns out of the hands of unstable individuals, isn't it time we demand 100 percent screening?
It violates the 1st and 4th amendments. That's why oppose background checks.
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