AlexanderA
Member
According to Greg Sargent of the Washington Post, a bipartisan group of four Senators (Coburn, Kirk, Schumer, and Manchin) are 95% of the way to an agreement on a proposed "universal background check" bill.
Some ideas that have emerged from this are the following:
1. Exemption of transfers among family members from the background checks.
2. Exemption for concealed-carry permit holders.
3. A mechanism to insure that the background checks don't result in a de facto national gun registry.
4. Having FFL's make the actual calls into NICS (for a nominal fee), but not having the FFL's enter the private transactions into their "bound book," and having the Forms 4473 retained by the sellers, not the FFL's.
(This latter seems to be a sort of hybrid system between having all transactions run through FFL's (as in the ordinary course of their business), and opening the NICS to inquiries by non-licensed individuals.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...san-deal-close-on-expanded-background-checks/
Some ideas that have emerged from this are the following:
1. Exemption of transfers among family members from the background checks.
2. Exemption for concealed-carry permit holders.
3. A mechanism to insure that the background checks don't result in a de facto national gun registry.
4. Having FFL's make the actual calls into NICS (for a nominal fee), but not having the FFL's enter the private transactions into their "bound book," and having the Forms 4473 retained by the sellers, not the FFL's.
(This latter seems to be a sort of hybrid system between having all transactions run through FFL's (as in the ordinary course of their business), and opening the NICS to inquiries by non-licensed individuals.)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...san-deal-close-on-expanded-background-checks/