"40% of guns are sold without background checks"

[enbloc]

I, (the seller) should be the only one who chooses to whom I will or won't sell a gun to.
Imagine if I was restricted from selling other privately owned property.
"Sorry Joe. I can't sell you my chevy, cause you had that DUI 2 years ago..."
"I'd love to sell you my still-in-original-packaging Ginsu Steak Knife set Laurie, but isn't your daughter being treated for depression?..."

Liberty is dead.

 

[GlockJock]

I, (the seller) should be the only one who chooses to whom I will or won't sell a gun to.
Imagine if I was restricted from selling other privately owned property.
"Sorry Joe. I can't sell you my chevy, cause you had that DUI 2 years ago..."

Which, in Massachusetts, might "kill two birds with one stone" for the .gov if the DUI is charged as a felony.

 

[drgrant]

"40% of guns are sold without background checks"
And 100% of what Timothy McVeigh used in Oklahoma City iis sold without background checks too...

No, it's not, actually. There are a shitload of regulations around that fertilizer (now, but not back then) and the explosives they used to initiate the bomb were stolen from a mining company... so so much for "background checks". Not the best example because there's a hodgepodge of shit around it.

-Mike