Gun Control & RKBA

and his grandmother shopped for a shotgun, he selected it and left the store while she filled out paperwork and made the purchase. A few hours later he shot his eight year old son and then himself. Criminal charges were brought against both grandmother and store owner and neither charge stuck. The felon's widow sued the gun store and it took ten years to escalate the case to the Kansas Supreme Court where it was ruled that the store knew or should have known that it was a straw purchase and awarded $137,000 in damages to the widow, a small fraction of the legal costs.

There are things that can be done to make both straw purchase and trafficking more difficult. Requiring immediate reporting of lost or stolen guns to the police makes it difficult to pass guns to prohibited persons as well as giving law enforcement a tool for prosecution if/when the gun shows up in a relative's/SOs hands and limits on gun purchases/month make it difficult to buy enough guns to make trafficking worthwhile.

Neither violate any part of the 2nd Amendment and at worst are a minor inconvenience to legitimate gun owners.