Gun sales observation

[GeoFisher]

Now, don't smack me down, but I'm changing my views a little on this.

While I don't want the gubment EVER being able to step in and take my rights away, I do think we need a more effective way of managing illegal gun sales.

Everyone ON this forum knows it is crazy easy to get a gun, any gun. I can go to the gun show, I can go to a flea market, I can instant message pretty much anyone on this site, and I can come up with a gun.

While I'm not a felon or a criminal, you guys don't know that. I could enter into a purchase of a rifle, handgun, shotgun, ak, whatever from someone here or one any of the thousands of boards and places that exist for me to purchase a weapon.

With that being said, I think we need some GUARANTEES from our politicians, and then we need a registration system for all guns. That registration system should include a fee for transfer of firearms from party 1 to party 2. We already do similar things for automobiles........it could be very easy to implement something similar for guns.

My only concern with that is the obvious that the GUBMENT now knows what and where and how many I have. I NEVER want them to know that, but if there were iron clad guarantees about the information maybe, just maybe we could make some concessions that don't hurt my 2nd amendment rights, and also severely limits and restricts gun ownership for folks that should NEVER own a gun.

Again, I don't know the answers, but this could go a long way to helping with illegal and illicit weapons getting into the wrong hands.

Yea, I know criminals will STILL get a gun when they want a gun, but I guarantee you this will eliminate at least half of the guns exchanging hands illegally........

Finally....how many of you guys get crazy pissed when someone runs a red light, or keeps 100 bass, or shoots 4 deer out of season......those are all laws, yet we ALL know someone who should not own a weapon......whats' the difference?

Later,

Geo

[MrSplitshot]

I could go along with a gun registration process, and transfer process, similar to that of owning and transferring an automobile. It could neither be cost prohibitive, nor overly paperworked...the cost or the process shouldn't prevent anyone who wants to legally own, sell, or buy a firearm from doing so. No annual property tax BS either...sales tax on the original sale based on the state, and that's it.

I could even halfway go along with a "license" to possess and use a firearm with some kind of test similar to a drivers test. We expect people to know the rules and know how to operate a car safely - Why not a gun? There are people who own guns they have never shot, aren't proficient with, and know nothing about the basic principles of firearm safety and marksmanship.

I'm not so hardcore right that I couldn't compromise on some things like this...but it would have to come with some guarantees, some checks and balances, and some concessions that use common sense on things like magazines and "assault weapon" BS.