wiscoaster
Member
I ask for your opposition to these bills that I understand have been scheduled for floor vote:
H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
H.R.1446 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021
I have no problem with requiring a firearm to be transferred only to a transferee lawfully permitted to have such a firearm. However, neither of these bills are the best way to effect this requirement. Both make the transfer potentially burdensome to the parties lawfully involved, thereby infringing upon their Second Amendment rights. Neither do anything more to prevent unlawful transfers than current law.
There is an easier and better way to accomplish the same goals: just open up the NICS background check system to all persons and require the transferor of a firearm to run a background check on the transferee and also require the transferee to run a background check upon the transferor, and require each to retain a copy of the background check result. There is absolutely no need for the requirement of a licensed dealer to intermediate in all such transactions.
H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021
H.R.1446 - Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021
I have no problem with requiring a firearm to be transferred only to a transferee lawfully permitted to have such a firearm. However, neither of these bills are the best way to effect this requirement. Both make the transfer potentially burdensome to the parties lawfully involved, thereby infringing upon their Second Amendment rights. Neither do anything more to prevent unlawful transfers than current law.
There is an easier and better way to accomplish the same goals: just open up the NICS background check system to all persons and require the transferor of a firearm to run a background check on the transferee and also require the transferee to run a background check upon the transferor, and require each to retain a copy of the background check result. There is absolutely no need for the requirement of a licensed dealer to intermediate in all such transactions.