I also don't want to be responsible for a firearm getting into the wrong hands.
I have never been, and will never be, RESPONSIBLE for a gun 'getting into the wrong hands'.
The 'wrong hands' are solely responsible for that. I have never agreed to accept legal responsibility for somebody else's actions (other than my children) and I don't plan on starting anytime soon.
Let's look at this another way. The last I looked at the DoJ statistics, something close to half of the folk that were in Federal prison for gun-related crimes
were legal to buy a gun at the time that they committed the crime. THEY WERE NOT PROHIBITED. No NICS check, no 4473, no
anything would have stopped them from legally obtaining a firearm. And so they obtained one and committed a Federal offense.
The very notion of 'preventing the wrong people from getting guns' is backward. On its very face, this idea makes the presumption that
you can tell who is 'the wrong hands'. I hate to break it some of y'all, but life is not a Tom Cruise movie. We cannot tell who is going to commit a future crime, no matter how smart we try to be.
Gang - you cannot reliably tell who is gonna Do Bad Things. Some folk are bad seed, and they show that to the world. We avoid selling dangerous articles to these folk out of a basic sense of self-preservation, and that's good. But many others are simply NOT that easy to identify as Folk That Would Do Bad Things, even to the steely gaze of the .gov and their FBI database.
So why are we internalizing responsibility something over which we have but scant control? It's the very definition of irrational.
I ask my local buyers to verify to me that they are not a prohibited person, because that is my legal obligation under federal law. But that's as far as I'm taking it, because anything more than that is intrusive, an utter waste of effort, and most importantly fosters the false notion that somehow the GCA'68 and the Brady Check actually have any merit in reducing the number of firearms in the hands of Folk Who Would Do Bad Things.