What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks?

[Lee-Lee]

42. Most gun owners I know care less about the checks and more about how they are implemented

And more about the fact that the proposed method creates records of every gun a person owns, and while not in a central database, they exist and are open to warrantless, without cause search by LE at any time.

I am in favor of UBC. I am not in favor of any UBC system that records the serial number of every gun I own and leaves that open for warrantless review at any time. I am not in favor of a UBC system that creates too many extra steps.

As an example if the proposed law was passed now I would still be exempt from the checks, as I have a NC CCW. But instead of a common sense implementation- where I simply show that CCW to the private party I am buying from, the law would require us both to go to a gun dealer during business hours, so likely missing some work, fill out the form with all the info an ID thief needs, show that CCW to the dealer, pay him whatever his transfer fee is ($20-40 in these parts), let him log the gun in as if he actually had it in inventory, then log it out to me, and retain all that info.

All that extra work, but in fact nothing more was accomplished that would not be had I just shown that CCW to the seller. Well, nothing productive- my privacy was compromised and my info now is subject to warrantless review, and I had to pay a fee that one could argue is akin to a poll tax for exercise of a right that went into that dealers wallet, and I wasted time.