Any person in Colorado who wants to sell a gun to someone else should be able to call the state and give the name and birth date of the person trying to buy the gun. The seller would get a simple yes no answer from the CBI as to whether the buyer is prohibited from buying the firearm. The seller could take it from there. Federal and state laws already forbid knowingly selling a firearm to a person who is legally disqualified from buying one. Other information, regarding the make and model of the weapon, has no bearing on the buyer’s qualification.
The state-operated NICS system should be available by phone to any citizen, and not just federally licensed dealers, if we want to screen all gun sales. It must require no paperwork on the part of the seller. It need not ask for the seller’s identity or information on the firearm. It must be truly instant, so that law-abiding citizens who want to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals can do so with minimal barriers. [More]So there will be no registration lists to abuse? Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?
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Heres an example of database list abuse from the Illinois DMV in the past. Sold names for sports tickets.
ReplyDeletehttp://triblocal.com/libertyville/2010/12/08/drivers-license-executive-surrenders-to-allegations-of-stealing-personal-information-for-gift-cards-sports-tickets/
hmmm So under this proposed nonsense anyone with who has a persons birthdate can call this registry and find out about someone else... yeha no chance of abuse there..
ReplyDeleteI'm surely not the only one, but if they were to keep a log of who was cleared.... You could "clear" all the anti-gun politicians and the like... Just to make to make it more interesting if any list was ever released or used.
ReplyDeleteFurthermore, while I would personally not want to sell a gun to someone who intended to harm innocents with it... I have zero moral obligation to take that beyond my personal assessment of the character of the buyer.
ReplyDeleteI am not responsible for what someone else does with a tool, whether I sold it to him or not.
I suspect that the Journal News, or any other unethical news organization, which is most of them, would be making a lot of calls
ReplyDeleteUpon reaching the age at which one can buy a gun legally, one is checked. His license/ID is changed into "good" or "bad". If adjudicated and prohibited at any time, the ID becomes "bad"
ReplyDeleteLaw to show ID when purchasing a gun.
No muss. No fuss. No paperwork.