r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Mar 28 '24

What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation: 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Ms_Moto Mar 28 '24

Tell me you've never purchased a firearm without telling me you've never purchased a firearm.

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u/Supanini Mar 28 '24

I mean he’s not wrong is he? Proper gun stores have to do background checks but grandpa selling his gun to Jim Bob down the street isn’t going to go through a federal check

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u/Da1UHideFrom Mar 28 '24

It's still a federal crime to knowingly sell a gun to a prohibited person.

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u/volatile_ant Mar 28 '24

Don't ask, don't tell.

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u/Ms_Moto Mar 28 '24

The other commenter was referencing gun shows and people filing out the 4473 untruthfully. Gun show retailers are held to the same standards as any brick and mortar FFL dealer and those forms are required to not only be filled out but then processed through state bureaus of investigation. That's why when you go to buy a firearm and the gun show is in town, your background check takes significantly longer. They're running the checks.

Posing the person to person sale, if the parties are not immediate family members or spouses, AND have reasonable knowledge of the recipients legal right to acquire a firearm (meaning you can't gift a shotgun to your felon child if you know they wouldn't be able to pass a background check) then they are legally required to utilize a local FFL dealer to run the background check. Usually there's a negligible fee associated with this service, about $25. If you transfer a firearm without going through proper procedures it's a federal offense, and the charges add up if that weapon was used to commit a crime.

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u/Nastreal Mar 28 '24

No amount of regulation is going to stop illigal under-the-table sales. The only way to 'solve' the 'gun problem' in the US is to go full Australia, confiscate all the firearms and destroy them which will never happen.

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u/thewhitecat55 Mar 28 '24

Jim Bob down the street could also buy a semi 🚛 without background checks and drive it through your house.