[Official] Gun control

On 7/25/2016 at 1:00 PM, nic227 said:

To people who say guns don't kill people, people kill people, give me a fucking break. People kill people using guns...

 

 

I have said it before, and I will say it again, NOBODY NEEDS TO HAVE a fully automatic rifle or a handgun, any other firearm than a hunting rifle or a shotgun in their possession. The ease of obtaining one in the US is astonishing.

You contradicted yourself in a matter of half a sentence.

As a firearm owner and a resident of the United States, I can tell you that the government has no right to tell me what purpose my firearm must be used for to maintain legality (i.e. hunting, target shooting, etc.). I understand you are from Canada based on your profile, where to my knowledge, handguns are not legal and the only thing that people really have are shotguns and rifles. The United States is a completely different country though. The ease of obtaining a weapon LEGALLY is not as astonishingly easy as you say it is. When purchasing a firearm, a NICS check is performed. This check run's the person's name, DOB, gender and race through a database of several different components. One of the checks is a III (interstate identification index) check, which is a database of fingerprint-supported arrests that the states have communicated to the database. There is also an NCIC check that looks to see if the person has any warrants with significant extradition limits, SO Registry, domestic violence/protection orders, potential terrorist watch list, missing persons, deported felons, etc. These are both in addition to the NICS check itself.

The initial NICS mastery names query also soundexes, meaning that names and dates of birth that are similar are presented to the person performing the check in an effort to make sure it's not the same person as a potential hit record indicates.

People (who don't know what they are talking about) think that one can just buy guns online and have them shipped to their house or go to a gun show and just buy a gun from a dealer without one of these NICS checks, which couldn't be farther from the truth. Every person buying a firearm from an FFL uses these checks and criminals who buy their guns and use them in the commission of crimes do not.