Mark Kelly is going to be spending some of that lucre flowing in for a trip to Salem, to stump for Floyd Prozanski's lawful gun owner registration bill. [More]
The distinction is important to make, as making criminals register unlawful ones is a violation of their rights.
I don't know why they don't just adopt the default assumption that we're all armed, and conduct themselves accordingly...and if the object really was background checks, why has no one from the gun-grabbing side floated BIDS as one of those "compromises" they complain about never happening?
Forget the encryption. Make the list of prohibited persons a public record readily available to all without fee, with a concise description of why a member of the list is prohibited. Ensure that there is a workable process to quickly remove names from the list if an error is detected.
ReplyDeleteIf this sounds unreasonable, remember that a purchaser of a black market firearm fills out no paperwork, does not disclose his or her identity, does not report the transaction to any government entity, pays no taxes on the transaction and usually either pays cash or barters some other goods or services of value on the black market. The seller in the black market transaction also benefits from the lack of government involvement.
So how do you prevent black market transactions? There are no workable methods.