CoalTrain49
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Here's a few things to think about regarding UBC's:
1) A background check is just what it says it is, a check on a person's background. It has nothing to do with registration. It's proactive to prohibit people who shouldn't own a gun from acquiring one.
2) A registration of a firearm is not a background check. It's a database built to link firearms with people. It can lead to confiscation if abused. The stated purpose now is to link firearms to criminal activity which most LE agencies are in favor of. It's reactive. It does nothing to prohibit people from acquiring firearms.
3) The majority of people in the US want more background checks and just watching the progression of things I would say they will get them.
If you have a UBC that incorporates a registration it should be called a UBCR, not a UBC. Oregon has a UBCR. UBCR's are bad from the perspective that they facilitate way more than a background check, they facilitate registration.
The goal of the AG crowd is background checks and registration because registration can be used as a tool for confiscation. Once a firearm is declared illegal to own like the recently passed law in CT they want them collected and destroyed.
If we're going to debate the issue of background checks let's deal with that single issue and leave registration as another issue on the table. They are not the same thing.
1) A background check is just what it says it is, a check on a person's background. It has nothing to do with registration. It's proactive to prohibit people who shouldn't own a gun from acquiring one.
2) A registration of a firearm is not a background check. It's a database built to link firearms with people. It can lead to confiscation if abused. The stated purpose now is to link firearms to criminal activity which most LE agencies are in favor of. It's reactive. It does nothing to prohibit people from acquiring firearms.
3) The majority of people in the US want more background checks and just watching the progression of things I would say they will get them.
If you have a UBC that incorporates a registration it should be called a UBCR, not a UBC. Oregon has a UBCR. UBCR's are bad from the perspective that they facilitate way more than a background check, they facilitate registration.
The goal of the AG crowd is background checks and registration because registration can be used as a tool for confiscation. Once a firearm is declared illegal to own like the recently passed law in CT they want them collected and destroyed.
If we're going to debate the issue of background checks let's deal with that single issue and leave registration as another issue on the table. They are not the same thing.
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