Why must they always go to Don?

How long before .........

Bullseye!!!!!

The way I read what Don (who I don't know) said, is that the NICS laws are onerous and bogus - because no matter who or what you are, you can still buy a gun F2F either at a gunshow or on a street corner...

And that's not going to change - even if they make it "illegal".

A Right Regulated is not a Right - it is a Privilege.

Maybe I just never learned how to read, but IIRC it is NOT the "privilege to keep & bear arms"

What part of "shall not be infringed" is so hard to understand?

timex,
By the government's own figures, the percentage of guns that were used in crimes by their legal buyers is just around 20%. That means that the other 80% were obtained by other than legal means. Whether they were stolen, bought on the street, supplied by a partner in crime, whatever. Those purchases will not be affected by any restrictions on legitimate gun dealers.

Enforcement of the laws against illegal transfers are a joke now, and will become even more so the more legal dealers are driven out of business by restrictions and paperwork.

Another thread on this forum has the news about a large quantity of heroin just seized. The mere possession of this drug by anyone is a felony, but it is still traded in quantities that fill a car trunk, despite the "War on Drugs" that has been waged by local and state police, the FDA, and other agencies at great expense for many years and the fact that drug-sniffing dogs can be used pretty effectively to locate the contraband.

How many times more difficult would it be to stop the illegal trade in an item that can be made in small quantities on a kitchen table with small tools, doesn't have an odor that would tip off a dog, and provides the buyer with not just a temporary high, but with an advantage that will allow him to rob or muder without the victim being able to effectively defend himself?

No, guns in the wrong hands are here to stay. The more the gun-grabbers try to stop violence by taking away weapons, the more important and useful the weapon becomes to the criminal, because the fewer will be the law-abiding citizens who will go to the trouble or risk prosecution in order to provide protection against the illegal use of guns.

And the more they shut down legal weapon availability, the higher will go the profit margin for the illegal supplier. The pattern has been well established and proven in the cases of alcohol during prohibition, and drugs since they were made illegal. Neither prohibition stopped the trade they were designed to stop, and both created or benefitted the business of illegal supply.

The most effective answer to the situation is to allow the right hands to be filled with a gun as well, if the honest person wishes to take on the responsibility of defending himself and other innocent victims of the criminal element, or predatory animals or other non-human threats. The guns are already in the hands of the people we really don't want to have them. Arming the victim will not make the situation worse.

The scary threat of those with serious mental problems or violent criminal intent being able to buy their gun legally, rather than getting it by other means like 80% of their guns are already obtained, does NOT justify the death of one of our most important freedoms.

I suppose many of those who keep pushing for additional restrictions on gun purchases are well-meaning folks who actually believe that such measures would have a positive effect. They are mistaken. It takes more than good intentions to make good legislation.