GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, OR DO THEY?

[Cynical Ninja]

I read the bill when you posted it previously, Six. I read it again recently.

In order for background check requirements to be applied universally to gun transfers, administrative processes would of course be required, like with anything else. I understand from your posts that you object to those processes as being too restrictive and inconvenient to you and yours.

However, it's simply not true that the bill included or necessitated a gun registry in order for universal background checks to be implemented. Federal rules already exist forbidding the government from keeping a record of successful background checks for more than a day. Those same rules apply whether 60% or 90% of gun transfers require background checks. Lawmakers have repeatedly confirmed that they have no intention of creating a gun registry.

So, it's simply fear by some gun owners that the government can't be trusted and could have created a national gun registry with even more names had the universal background checks bill passed. It's a fear that the Fed would break its own rules, commit political suicide and create a national gun registry on the sly for the purpose of raping the US citizenship of its guns. It's a fear of yours not a fact and not a provision/necessity attached to universal background checks (nor the bill that proposed them).

Gun nuts displaying fear and paranoia about their assumptions that are incorrect?

Say it ain't so HOTD, say it ain't so.