This note is appended by the FBI to NICS data: "NOTE: These statistics represent the number of firearms background checks initiated through the...
Most (if not all) laws cost money to enforce - often, a lot money.
Your link to a statute is disingenuous. You know as well as I do that it's not at all necessary to read an actual statute in order to know what...
A very small number. Which does not negate the value and purpose of background checks. Background checks create opportunities for prosecutions. A...
Background checks create opportunities for prosecution. If there is a low number of prosecutions, the problem is attributable to a failure to...
Not true, at all. According to FBI NICS data, just under 5% of denials were overturned in 2104 (4,411 of 90,895 denials). Conversely, some 95%...
4,411 of the 90,895 denials in 2014 were overturned - or, 4.85% of denials.
Do you think that all the criminals who failed a background check should instead have been allowed to have one? What exactly do you think they'd...
Again with the "why bother". For the same reason we "bother" with any law. Any background check that is performed works ipso facto. 1.16 million...
There are undoubtably shortcomings re enforcement, prosecution etc. including a failure to report to police, limited ATF resources (especially...
Doesn't matter if a crime is committed in a "publicly-accessible and visible venue" if there are no police around to detect it. So, do...
Again, the arguments you make against private background check laws can be made against any law. And thereby, according to your 'logic', there...
Your question is riddled with false premises, because you persist in: (a) confounding the role, purpose and functions of two arms of the law:...
Ah, so in order to show that a law won't work based on the honor system, you suggest it should be dependent on a law which operates on the honor...
You're confounding two separate issues - tracking gun ownership and qualifying gun ownership. Background check regulations pertain solely to the...
Firstly, background checks are not solely about detection. They also have a preventative effect, deterring criminals from even attempting to buy...
Those states with background checks for private sales and no registration would beg to differ. Registration does not affect the ability of a...
Background checks for person-to-person sales would not limit access - unless the check determined that the prospective buyer was ineligible....
Yes, that goes without saying. But, not a justification for dispensing with any and all means to limit access. Which, by the way, to my mind...
Background checks for private gun sales ipso facto "do something". And the benefit extends beyond small/individual gun sales - a significant...
The reason people are free to comment on any topic they like has nothing to do with a sense of entitlement, or whatever. It derives from the plain...
Which part of "Everyone is free to comment or start a thread on any topic they like, regardless of whether or not you (or anyone else) feels that...
Who said the omission was due to "error", let alone a "clerical error"? Not me. Here's a reminder of what I actually said: "Your definition is...
Your definition is erroneously limited to "ambiguity". A loophole may also be - and most commonly is - an error, omission or inadequacy in a law,...
Not required. Irrelevant. This is an international online forum, not a US polling place. Commenting on another country even though you have "no...
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