I'm in the same boat. I've had so many background checks for so many things, and I much prefer the person buying/selling me/my gun is at least as far as the current system can tell, up and up. And IF they aren't, as long as they passed a background check that's not on me/my fault.
I can understand why some people would be against them and the historical precedence behind why but more and more I am seeing that as a side effect that's worth the risk. They aren't perfect and we definitely need to plug the holes in the BGC system so people don't slip through but I also think if they ever did lead to confiscation they way most people afraid of that seems to imagine it (government forces kicking in your door and confiscating them) there would be enough opposition by owners that it would be impossible. Don't get me wrong, I think guns should be confiscated under certain conditions but I just don't think the mass scale that people worry about is even possible.
We had background checks in FL in the 80s, before the Brady Law applied a similar system federally.
As a kid, I thought this was a great idea. When I was working at Kmart in the 80s, a customer was complaining about the background checks. I told him why I thought it was a great idea. He said, "If I couldn't buy a gun, why wouldn't I just have my girlfriend buy it for me?".
Yeah, it's a completely bulletproof system except that a felon has to go through the complicated process of having his wife, girlfriend, brother, sister, father, mother, cousin, coworker, fellow gang member, friend, acquaintance or literally anyone without a record buy a gun for them.
I've known several prohibited persons and they all had guns if they wanted them, and this is how they got them.
One was an old man with a business, and his house paid off who got caught with too much weed in the 70s. His brother bought him a gun, so he could protect his family.
One was a guy who got punched by his 19 year old step son, wrestled him to the ground, and held him down until the police got there. Misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. He won't get a gun, because he's scared to break the law- that's who the background check system is protecting you from- the guy who doesn't want to break the law.
Background checks do nothing but make yiu feel good. If there's someone out there bent on killing they need to be under some kind of supervision. They don't need to be walking free to kill, and with a single feel good measure one particular type of weapon.
I can't see how anyone sees any value in that process.