House Democrats Pledge Passage Of Expanded Gun Background Checks Bill

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13. It's not a "loophole," it's how the USA treats private property.

Federal Firearm Licensees (FFL's) are required to conduct background checks of buyers as a requirement of their licensing. Such a license is required of anyone who sells enough firearms that it is part of their routine economic activity and livelihood. You or I, or any other gun owner, can elect to sell a firearm to a private buyer as a means of disposing of our own private property without such licensing. Gun shows just happen to bring a lot of such private individuals together, along with potential buyers. I don't generally attend them, as they also tend to aggregate blowhards and nutjobs, but that's another story...

I'm not particularly in favor of this background check bill changing how individuals may dispose of their private property, but I won't expend a lot of energy opposing it either. Still, there is a growing body of peer-reviewed and published evidence showing that expanding background checks does not measurably reduce crime or gun deaths, such as: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1047279718306161?fbclid=IwAR1Q-PYe6c_oC106rrh3DWARax0nwCG440OH-Au8BUzUJh1CMDjGQ5FSBI8

This bill is doomed to die in the Senate anyway, but I still would rather see Democrats addressing financial regulation, environmental protection, access to education and health care, etc. well ahead of tweaking with Second Amendment issues.

-app