Quote:I'm not really bowing out, just don't see the point of discussing how easy or hard it is to get a gun if you think there is no valid reason to do a criminal background check in the first place.

 

Criminals are armed if they want to be and no law or background check will ever prevent that.  Research has shown criminals rarely get their guns at gun shops.  They would not pass the background check so they don't even try that method. 

 

I believe we'd be fine with no restrictions of any kind.  Prior to 1968 guns weren't even required to have serial numbers.  As I have shown, you could order "weapons of war" through the mail that would penetrate not only a police car but the whole police station.  In the 1970s every truck in the high school parking lot had a rifle or shotgun in the rear window.  I remember fist fights after school and nobody went running for their shotgun when they lost. 

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