That said, here’s where BIDS could prove a very useful tool to expose the antis for what they’re really after: If the “gun safety groups” truly only want background checks, why would they not promote a system like BIDS, which creates none of the potential registration dangers that could be abused to jeopardize gun owners’ freedom? [More]
Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes a simple way to prove the antis are lying when they say all they want are background checks. In addition to them just being who they are...
BIDS sounds like something I proposed a while back:
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To ensure no information ever got back to government,
1) the application would have to be open-source
2) the database should be distributed on a monthly basis as a USB flash drive bootable image
3) the application should be booted and run on a computer with no internet connection (wireless cards removed, ethernet port filled with glue)
Thus, a dealer would need two computers, one to download the image and install it on a blank flash drive, and the other to boot up on that flash drive and run the application with no internet connection.
A non-dealer could also run this on an ordinary computer. The buyer could supply his own computer to run it on if he was paranoid about it.
To establish this system, previous half-assed registration schemes such as NICS and the 4473's should be eliminated.