Universal Background Checks

IrishMac 1684 posts Original UHND Member

Posted 9:25 am on Aug 9, 2019

Everybody always mentions gun show sales as the real reason for needing universal background checks... i believe the statistic on those sales is that only 0.7% of all guns transactions are through gun shows and not a single one has ever been used in a mass murder.

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Universal Background Checks IrishMac 9:25am · 8/9/19
- We should require a license to buy a gun. AlbanyIRISH 11:42am · 8/9/19
  - What does that actually accomplish?NT CC72 12:36pm · 8/9/19
    - Is Wiki wrong? CC72 12:39pm · 8/9/19
- 99%+ of "gun show sales" are done with instant, federal background checks. NedoftheHill 10:48am · 8/9/19
  - Background checks should be required for private sales. iairishcheeks 11:38am · 8/9/19
    - I'm willing to discuss that. But, it has little if anything to do with gun shows. NedoftheHill 1:21pm · 8/9/19
    - Universal background checks and magazine restrictions are just common sense. Frank L 11:50am · 8/9/19
      - Yep, I can't sell my car to you without a legal title change. iairishcheeks 2:21pm · 8/9/19
      - YikesNT NedoftheHill 1:24pm · 8/9/19
  - Maybe I shouldn't be posting this. Gun banners may try for something else if they find this out.NT NedoftheHill 10:58am · 8/9/19
- Have you conflated - Universal Health Care with Background Checks for Guns? jimbasil 10:38am · 8/9/19
- I'd support any ID verification/background check/etc for gun purchase that is also applied to votingNT BaronVonZemo 10:38am · 8/9/19
  - Agreed. Any consistent liberals out there care to jump in here?NT NedoftheHill 10:54am · 8/9/19
    - I agree as long as the background checks don't take months CC72 12:33pm · 8/9/19
      - Agreed. Right now they take a minute or so.NT NedoftheHill 1:24pm · 8/9/19
- Probably true. But it only takes one. Now you have a clown walking into Walmart fully geared up,Link Frank L 9:58am · 8/9/19

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