It IS NOT A CRIME to sell a firearm to a felon or prohibited person unless you KNOW OR HAVE REASON TO BELIEVE HE IS SUCH.
NO, what is really BS is that is the way the law reads. How many people have been crucified in courts over the aspect of whether or not they did indeed not know somebody was a prohibited individual. Tell me that never has happened so I can call you full of BS. To you that may be black and white enough however to me, I see a whole lot of grey area for the legal system to come in and really ruin your day.
Ask for a drivers license? That proves what? That he is who he says he is? Does your state have some kind of sticker put on your license that states whether or not you are a felon? Mine doesn't.
Ask for a voters registration card? If they don't have one they must be a criminal? Really? I don't have one.... it went through the wash and I never got a new one. When I voted in the primarys here a while back I went to the polls and showed them my drivers license. They didn't ask for a card, they looked on the list and bingo there I was. Actually thank you for that information though, I am being serious.... I didn't think of that as a way to verify somebody's worthiness.
Ask for a concealed carry permit? We don't have that in my state.
What it all boils down to for me is that I can take your word that you are not a bad guy and decide for myself that to the best of my knowledge and gut feelings you are on the up and up. If this turns out to not be the case then I get to try and convince the police or the courts of why I thought it was okay.
My other choice is to only go through an FFL and let them deal with it. But guess what, he is going to have them fill out paperwork and go through a background check so we're right back where we started from.... somebody having to submit to the horrors of a background check.
And, since less than 2% of guns used in crimes come from gun show sales, and a very small amount from personal transactions of ANY kind, this whole thing is just smoke and mirrors.
Here, let me use that same line of logic.......
And, since the statistics show that the actuality of any violent crime being committed against you or your family is very small the idea that you need to have a gun in your home or carry one on your person is nothing but smoke and mirrors. Kinda delusional right?
Call me or my line of thinking full of BS all you want. In my BS filled life I cannot make the distinction of what makes a background check for buying a gun anymore evil that submitting to one to teach at a school or work for a bank or handle sensitive documents. Maybe Mr. Stardust has a point, I go through them all the time and like Mr. Pavlov's dog they have never caused me any harm. I do want to point out though that I don't start dripping at the jowls everytime I am being fingerprinted, photographed and signing on the dotted line.