The premise of the reason for mandatory Universal Background Checks (UBGC) for all private purchases, sales, transfers, or gifts of firearms by private citizens in the United States, commonly known as "face-to-face" sales, is to stop criminals or undesirables from obtaining firearms.
Without, however, the mandatory registration by the Government of each and every firearm already owned by each and every citizen in the United States, there would be absolutely no way for the Government to know if private citizens were circumventing the law by selling/transferring firearms face-to-face they owned previous to the new Universal Background Check Law.
For example: I own a firearm that I bought 20 years ago, from my now dead friend. I haven't the faintest idea where he bought it originally, nor do I care. But, today, a friend of mine, Joe, wants to buy it and I no longer want it. Or perhaps I just need the money.
Neither of us lives even remotely close to a gun store to make the transfer if given permission by the Gun Background Check Bureau bureaucrats in D.C. Besides, neither of us believes in obeying such a ridiculous and un-Constitutional law anyway. So, Joe hands me cash, I hand him the gun and a back dated Bill of Sale, showing that Joe bought it long before the UBGC law was signed by the President. No one is wiser of how Joe and I broke the Federal law.
Given that there are somewhere between 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 firearms already in the hands of upward of 80,000,000 citizens, none of the pro-UBGC people here, or anywhere else, have been able to state any kind of logical -- I say again -- logical method of stopping millions of people from breaking the law, exactly as I laid out in my example... unless....
Unless there is Mandatory Universal Registration of each and every firearm in the hands of all citizens in the United States. That would be the only way to track every gun known to exist in the U.S. This would also require the physical viewing of these 250,000,000 ++ guns by the Federal Enforcers to record make, model, caliber, and serial number of each gun for the Government's Gun Data Base.
Perhaps each six months or so, to make absolutely certain the original owner still possessed the gun and had not bootlegged it in the flourishing firearms black market trade, each of the 80,000,000 gun owners would have to show his firearm to the Federal Enforcers to prove he had not sold it illegally. This could be done by having the owner go to the Federal UBGC office, where ever that might be, no matter how distant it might be from the owner's residence. The Federal Enforcers could certify the owner for another six months or so, if all were in proper order, and he could leave with his firearm(s).
Aside from the necessary hundreds of thousands of Federal Registration Enforcers and Federal Universal Background Check Enforcers, there would necessarily have to be extremely harsh punishment for any and all violators of the Laws. Only if the Government made the citizens so frightened, so terror filled, so afraid to not register their guns, or disobey the UBGC, would they reluctantly comply with the Government's dictates. Thousands upon thousands of "examples" of lawbreakers would have to be made by the Government in order to put paralyzing fear into the gun owning citizens.
Of course, to thwart the boot legging of guns in the black market trade, thousands of Federal Snitches would have to be hired by the President. They could travel throughout the country, north, south, east, and west, blanketing the U.S., doing their best to set up gun owners to break the Law, and then rat them out to the Enforcers. This would also help the President with his very large unemployment problem. Also it would magnify and intensify the fear of the citizens of breaking the Registration Law and UBGC Law.
A gun owner would never know if that nice guy he met at the local hardware store last month and came to his church each Sunday, just wanted to buy a gun "under the table," of if he were a Federal Snitch who'd rat him out. Fear is very powerful persuader.
Therefore, without the Mandatory Registration Law of previous and current guns already owned, the Universal Background Check Law would be virtually ineffective, even though new sales and transfers would be monitored.
And of course, it would all work perfectly just as the anti-guns, anti-Constitution crowd has planned. Wouldn't it??
Or would there be unintended consequences ??
Without, however, the mandatory registration by the Government of each and every firearm already owned by each and every citizen in the United States, there would be absolutely no way for the Government to know if private citizens were circumventing the law by selling/transferring firearms face-to-face they owned previous to the new Universal Background Check Law.
For example: I own a firearm that I bought 20 years ago, from my now dead friend. I haven't the faintest idea where he bought it originally, nor do I care. But, today, a friend of mine, Joe, wants to buy it and I no longer want it. Or perhaps I just need the money.
Neither of us lives even remotely close to a gun store to make the transfer if given permission by the Gun Background Check Bureau bureaucrats in D.C. Besides, neither of us believes in obeying such a ridiculous and un-Constitutional law anyway. So, Joe hands me cash, I hand him the gun and a back dated Bill of Sale, showing that Joe bought it long before the UBGC law was signed by the President. No one is wiser of how Joe and I broke the Federal law.
Given that there are somewhere between 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 firearms already in the hands of upward of 80,000,000 citizens, none of the pro-UBGC people here, or anywhere else, have been able to state any kind of logical -- I say again -- logical method of stopping millions of people from breaking the law, exactly as I laid out in my example... unless....
Unless there is Mandatory Universal Registration of each and every firearm in the hands of all citizens in the United States. That would be the only way to track every gun known to exist in the U.S. This would also require the physical viewing of these 250,000,000 ++ guns by the Federal Enforcers to record make, model, caliber, and serial number of each gun for the Government's Gun Data Base.
Perhaps each six months or so, to make absolutely certain the original owner still possessed the gun and had not bootlegged it in the flourishing firearms black market trade, each of the 80,000,000 gun owners would have to show his firearm to the Federal Enforcers to prove he had not sold it illegally. This could be done by having the owner go to the Federal UBGC office, where ever that might be, no matter how distant it might be from the owner's residence. The Federal Enforcers could certify the owner for another six months or so, if all were in proper order, and he could leave with his firearm(s).
Aside from the necessary hundreds of thousands of Federal Registration Enforcers and Federal Universal Background Check Enforcers, there would necessarily have to be extremely harsh punishment for any and all violators of the Laws. Only if the Government made the citizens so frightened, so terror filled, so afraid to not register their guns, or disobey the UBGC, would they reluctantly comply with the Government's dictates. Thousands upon thousands of "examples" of lawbreakers would have to be made by the Government in order to put paralyzing fear into the gun owning citizens.
Of course, to thwart the boot legging of guns in the black market trade, thousands of Federal Snitches would have to be hired by the President. They could travel throughout the country, north, south, east, and west, blanketing the U.S., doing their best to set up gun owners to break the Law, and then rat them out to the Enforcers. This would also help the President with his very large unemployment problem. Also it would magnify and intensify the fear of the citizens of breaking the Registration Law and UBGC Law.
A gun owner would never know if that nice guy he met at the local hardware store last month and came to his church each Sunday, just wanted to buy a gun "under the table," of if he were a Federal Snitch who'd rat him out. Fear is very powerful persuader.
Therefore, without the Mandatory Registration Law of previous and current guns already owned, the Universal Background Check Law would be virtually ineffective, even though new sales and transfers would be monitored.
And of course, it would all work perfectly just as the anti-guns, anti-Constitution crowd has planned. Wouldn't it??
Or would there be unintended consequences ??
