DU's very own Gungeoneers, there is no Internet or gun show "loophole." Not only should all gun sales be subject to a thorough background check and a mandatory waiting period, but registration (including transfers) should be mandatory as well.

These measures work well here in Hawaii, and we have the lowest gun death rate in the nation.

But registration can't pass anytime soon. I say we focus on universal background checks.

take what we can get at this point, but the "confiscation" paranoia about registration is assinine.

but gun advocates are by nature paranoid, don't you think? That they are so afraid of life they are compelled to carry guns all the time indicates to me that something is wrong.

actually believes that civilians (non-LEOs) carrying a gun in public is civilized social behavior is far beyond paranoid -- they are social misfits and wannabe vigilantes.

The adoration of guns, and the justification of the "recreational use" of guns as a family activity is very telling as well, and sends a message of aggressiveness to their children. This NRA-sponsored and promoted activity is very much like the KKK members who teach their children that violence against other races and religions is acceptable.

Guns have one purpose only, and that is to kill. All other uses of guns are to gain proficiency in killing with a lethal weapon from a distance.

At this time I have my own requirements that a buyer has to meet before I will sell him one of my firearms.

1) He has to be a Florida resident.

2) I have to personally have known the buyer for a long enough period of time to form a judgment on his personality and mental stability.

3) He has to have a valid Florida Concealed Weapons Permit.

Universal background checks would make it much easier to sell my firearms as they would eliminate my requirement that the buyer have a carry permit.

Hello? Anybody out there? Anybody? Hello?

rehearsing their lines for the next wave of "sanitized" NRA propaganda.

I wonder why?

of them over to join in after they rehearsed their "we're really on your side" lines.

Not as good as my Va facebook gun list groups but still worth browsing around.

be they internet, private seller, whatever, should require a background check, preferably through a Federal Firearms Dealer.

I'm also on board with registration as long as safeguards with teeth against abuse by the govt. are enacted, and, why not a national firearms ID, like the Illinois Firearms Owner ID?

These measures, along with changes in social behavior, would go a long ways to further reducing the firearms violence in this country.

As for registration of individual fire arms, I don't trust that info being out in the wild.
I could even get behind a tiered ownership tied to accredited, non NRA based training programs. Far too many people with highly lethal weapons out there with a wink and a nod type training. Most of the "training" that occurs in a CCW class is legalese, and what to say in event of a shooting, no skills training, no escalation of force continuum education and a healthy dose of NRA propaganda.
And a huge one for me is REQUIRED proper storage requirements, with aggressive prosecution of owners when a weapon is improperly, and unsafely kept that results in injury or death.
I would prefer this happen as a cultural and societal paradigm shift but am not completely against state regulations and laws that address this.

I'm shocked