In MY mind a UBC should be a criminal background check, like a NICS check but it also runs military records (so that of the military never got around to reporting criminal activity to non-DOD entities, at least it would be known), a mental health certificate of health no older than a month.
All of which are to be done any time a firearm changes ownership or accessibility.
I’m no fan of this way of thinking, because I don’t understand what the purpose is for it. I know why I am told it’s important, but I don’t believe it is a valid argument.
I think there is a large divide in what should be allowed as an “infringement” and what should not, and I think it’s largely a “where you grew up” thing.
I have lots of in-laws from western NY. They are rural folks, blue collar, hunters, gun owners. They come down to visit and I always offer them a range visit to go shooting. I am amazed by their reactions the first time we go out and we load 15-17 rounds in a handgun magazine, or 30 in an AR. One time, a young adult nephew was with me when I was buying shotgun ammo at a local Academy and I bought a couple cases. He said he was only able to buy limited amounts (pre COVID). He watched a guy pick out a gun, fill out the paperwork, pay for the gun, and leave with it...he asked me what the “wait time” was on a gun purchase in TX. I told him “Once the customer initiated the purchase, 20-40 minutes, depending on the speed of the computer system and the store clerk.” He looked at me and he said “wow! Thats crazy!”. I asked him why he thought it was “crazy”...and after some thought, he said...”Well, I don’t know".
Folks from very restrictive states are the “gun owners” the media and politicians like to refer to when they claim how gun owners are not opposed to all these new laws for “gun safety”. They live under these stupid rules like limited magazine capacities, type firearm bans, waiting periods, ammo restrictions, etc. They conform, because firearms owners are generally law abiding people. I don't blame them...I'd most likely do the same if I lived there. But what I would NOT do...what I will NOT do, is agree to laws that infringe upon my RKBA. I do not like that Texas doesn't have constitutional carry. I accept it and I abide by it as law, but I do not accept it as good.
But most folks I know in less restrictive states like Texas are absolutely opposed to ANY further infringement on buying, carrying, or possessing a firearm.