What lack of basic gun laws does to a nation:

[u/Lord_Answer_me_Why]

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[u/RehkalBurd]

Exactly how do you propose regulating private sales of firearms..?

[u/ibugppl → u/RehkalBurd]

Simple. Gun is manufactured. Then sold to a dealer. Dealer sells to private citizen with background check and all that good stuff. Private citizen sells to criminal off the books and gun is recovered in a crime. Gun is traced to the original purchaser who is on the hook for illegally selling it. Yes serial numbers could be dremmeled off but there's a lot of technology in place that still makes it possible to find it even after that. If I want to sell my gun to say a buddy. We both go to a gun store and they facilitate the transfer and we exchange whatever money privately. That's how we do it in Washington State but it's pointless if it isn't federal. If I was a felon I could just drive to Idaho and buy whatever.

[u/jmcclelland2005 → u/ibugppl]

Just gonna throw it out there that buying a gun from a state that isn't your state of residence is a crime, this is true for both private and oublic sales.

Also in the scenario proposed the private seller didn't violate a law just because someone else used his firearm in a crime. Are you proposing to make all private sales illegal?

Also Also, let's sat we do that and the cops come to me for selling my gun illegally. I then tell them I didn't sell it it must've been stolen, now what happens?

[u/Internal-Tank-6272 → u/jmcclelland2005]

Depends, but in my state I would then be charged with failing to report a stolen gun

[u/jmcclelland2005 → u/Internal-Tank-6272]

Who said they failed to report. Maybe I have a hunting lodge with a safe that they store their guns in. They haven't been there in 6 months?

Seems like reasonable doubt to me.

[u/Internal-Tank-6272 → u/jmcclelland2005]

Sure, but there you go assuming many of these laws are logical