AlexanderA
Member
So you're saying that gun sales / purchases should be totally unregulated. I can understand that, given that regulation has failed to keep guns out of the hands of wrongdoers. (There are just too many guns out there.) As for the idea of keeping wrongdoers in prison forever, good luck with that.So, let's put people in prison if they're selling guns without background checks to make sure that the known killers we let out of prison won't get guns. Makes sense. Because in a free country where guns are more common than staplers someone who is a criminal can't possibly find a criminal way to get a gun.
But since we do have regulation of gun sales / purchases, there ought at least to be a fair playing field among sellers. If someone is going to go to all the trouble of getting an FFL, keeping records, running background checks, etc., is it fair for him to have to compete with fly-by-night operators who do none of those things?
Bottom line is that we can tell the difference between "unlicensed dealers" and those who merely make occasional sales. This difference is difficult to quantify or to put into words, but it's there.
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