My post may have been complicated but the bottom line is they really want all sales (to the extent that they must allow ANY sales) to go through dealers where they can be tightly controlled.
Only item I'm not sure about is out of state convictions, but would NICS necessarily catch those either?
Add to this the fact that people who are granted LTCs in this state commit crimes at an infinitesimal rate in the first place, and you have a complete non-issue, assuming we have opportunity to have this perspective heard.
A better argument would be that an MICRS check does an instant federal check. I thought I had read a discussion about that on NES, but I can't find it.
Not that far-fetched! Look at what they do with cell phones . . . if you buy from a reseller they charge you sales tax on the MSRP which is a number that NOBODY ever pays. Plus the high monthly charge is sales taxed as well and that is actually where you are paying for the phone in addition to the service.
That was my impression as well, Len... but I distinctly recall a conversation here where someone was saying that it linked to NICS in real time, which surprised me. Too many hits on google to wade through and find it though.
Might not be a terrible thing to add to the system, allow the sale to go through on a "Proceed" or "delay" and stop it on a "deny". That way we could add 92% of the dealer's background check to the MIRCS and blowout the oppositions arguments.
Of course I'd want something in return for that "concession". Say.... suppressors.