Background checks should be required for private sales.

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Background checks should be required for private sales.

Author: iairishcheeks (10834 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 11:38 am on Aug 9, 2019

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It could be an easy online process and it would protect the seller. When you buy a new gun or any gun from an FFL, your name is tied to that serial number. If you sell it privately and it's subsequently used in a crime, guess who they'll come looking for.

Replies to: "Background checks should be required for private sales."

Universal Background Checks - IrishMac - 9:25am 8/9/19 (16) [View All]
- 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
      - Yikes [NT] - 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 voting [NT] - 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