womble wrote:
Some ?
Background check only applies to purchases through ffl dealers.
Not required for private sales, gun shows, online sales.
Incorrect.
Anyone in the business of selling firearms must have the appropriate FFL.
Private sales rules depend on the state and there are 50 states and if legal sales can only be done in state between residents who can own firearms legally.
Gun shows are no different than buying from a gun store as most people selling firearms at gun shows are dealers and hence you must pass a background check on site. Again depending on the states regulations, individuals can do private sales if legal. Or often gun shows there will be Curio and Relic FFLs like myself who can buy or sell our collection between C&R FFLs. C&R FFLs are not for making money but so collectors of old guns can sell or trade between one another.
Online sales no different than buying a gun at a gun store. I order online, it gets sent to my local gun store. The gun store handles the transfer and background check and I pay a fee, $30 in my case for that service. I don't legally own the gun until I pass the background check.
Again there are a lot of legalities that people like myself jump through hoops for but do the bad guys care? No, they just find ways around it. Just like in Australia with gangs manufacturing full auto sub guns and selling Glocks on the streets of Sydney for $2k a piece.
People are obsessed with the process but not the results.
As it stands in the average year, the federal government only prosecutes 5% of felons attempting to purchase a gun and failing a background check. Those people didn't get their gun but they didn't get prosecuted for trying to buy either.
You can bet though if conservative Republican wanneroo made the tiniest infraction I'd be looking at five years in prison.
In the end, people seem to think government wants to make things better but they don't, they want to make it worse so people will cry for more big government. We just saw this during covidsyteria. All government did was take a bad flu virus and make everything far, far, worse and use it to expand powers of government. It wasn't to help you or make your life better, quite the opposite.