AlexanderA
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It's not that the background check requires registration; it's that the check itself is a form of registration that includes the type, make and serial number of the gun.
Not necessarily. There are all sorts of ways to structure backgound checks.
The Coburn plan, for example, would have sellers log in to a secure web site, input the buyer's name and other identifying information, and get an immediate "proceed" or "do not proceed" response, with a unique transaction number. No information about the gun(s) would be disclosed.
There could be prescreening, in which the prospective buyers would log on to the web site and get a printable certificate that they would show to sellers who would just verify that it was legitimate.
The system could even be voluntary, with the incentive for using it being immunity from liability if the buyer later misuses a gun.
Now, I have to admit that in today's toxic, polarized environment such ideas won't get very far.