I agree with all of that. But that story isn’t being heard/understood.
And, it certainly
appears (just appears) that the anti crowd prefers it that way, which better lumps the apathetic middle in with the AG crowd.
As I pointed out four pages ago, the entire NICS system could be made a blind system accessible by a smartphone app. All using off-the-shelf tech and coding. As in easy enough to get done in less than 90 days easy.
Mind, the problem would be that such a plan with break the rice bowls of all the current NICS employees--pretty much a no-go. Also, the system would only be as good as the current NICS.
But, efficient and easy is not the point. The point is control. To take one more thing from "us" and reserve to the elite to keep for themselves, and to dole out at their whim to their sycophants and cronies.
So, the argument starts from a flawed premise. UBC will not fix the gaps in NICS. UBC cannot be "universal" without some way to track every possible firearm. Which is why a UBC must needs eventually lead to registration (I strongly suspect WA's UBC only "works" right now because compliance is lower than Canada's now-repealed registration).
It's not possible to make the illegal
more illegal, no matter how many laws get enacted. Unfortunately the apathetic middle does not want to stop and hear that. They have been inculcated to believe that you can compound anything. The middle wants to stay focused upon their own status quo, They want to assume that if a politician is calling for a law, that it means there is no other existing law already. "We" can't even tell them that there are already 20,000 gun laws on the books already, that just will not make sense to them--guns are just one thing, so why would you need more than one law?
The harder part is that "we" cannot afford to become divided. And, UBCs are showing excellent traction in fracturing "our" side. That is the evil. That is the danger.