A discussion of Gun Control for schrafinator

Do you even oppose something as easy as requiring a private seller to get the name of who they are selling to?

Let's explore your concept on private sales for a moment. How will you know when someone sells a gun?

.. while having argued vehemently earlier that truly responsible gun owners do not need to lock their guns up becuase they are so responsible.

No, if we take your guns we will REDUCE the danger both to you and those around you.

By reducing the probability that he and his family will die from a gun-related accident to nearely nil.

By reducing the capacity for domestic violence to result in a fatality.

Even by making attempted suicides more probably survivable; people have second thoughts.

I think that registering guns with their owners, and licensing people to own and operate firearms, just like we register cars with their owners and require a basic knowledge of how to operate a vehicle and the traffic laws, would be a great idea.

At leat there would be a paper trail if the gun was used in a crime, perhaps telling law enforcement where the perpetrator was at one time.

If it's in the constitution, and you own your guns legally, why should you fear?

Why do you disbelieve the FBI when they say that gun shows are a significant source of guns for criminal activity?

Yet HCI claims that "25-50 percent of the vendors at most gun shows are unlicensed dealers." That statistic is true only if one counts vendors who aren't selling guns (e.g., vendors who are selling books, clothing or accessories) as "unlicensed dealers."Denver congresswoman Diana DeGette says that 70 percent of guns used in crimes come from gun shows. The true figure is rather different, according to the National Institute of Justice, the research arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. According to an NIJ study released in December 1997 ("Homicide in Eight U.S. Cities," a report that covers much more than homicide), only 2 percent of criminal guns come from gun shows.That finding is consistent with a mid-1980s study for the NIJ, which investigated the gun purchase and use habits of convicted felons in 12 state prisons. The study (later published as the book Armed and Considered Dangerous) found that gun shows were such a minor source of criminal gun acquisition that they were not even worth reporting as a separate figure.At the most recent meeting of the American Society of Criminology, a study of youthful offenders in Michigan found that only 3 percent of the youths in the study had acquired their last handgun from a gun show. (Of course some criminal gun acquisition at gun shows is perpetrated by "straw purchasers" who are legal gun buyers acting as surrogates for the individual who wants the gun. Straw purchases have been federal felonies since 1968.)

If criminal background checks for private sales became the law, then a private seller would be held accountable if they sell a gun to someone who is a criminal.

As such, there are several companies which produce very popular low quality handguns that are used frequently in criminal activity.Theses guns generally fail the "drop test" in which they often will discharge when dropped.Here's an example: