Easy to use for the gun dealers
Shows only information relevant to the gun purchase, such as:
Age?
Passed the gun safety test?
Felony?
Mental Illness?
Other problems?
Provides a report to the gun buyer about eligibility
Provides a simple process for a person to challenge the report, in case of mistaken informationTo help gun dealers that travel, such as with gun shows, I think the background check system needs to be available as an app on Android system, iPhones, or iPads. Falling between gun ownership and gun use is the waiting period. Â Today, there is no federal waiting period between purchasing a gun and taking possession of that gun, though several states have different regulations about this. The reasoning for a waiting period is that a waiting period creates time for someone who is buying the guy angry to calm down and not do something stupid in the heat of the moment. Â But if a gun safety course is a prerequisite to buying a gun, there already is a built in waiting period, and we don't need a second one. The third part of gun control, gun use, is already covered by current laws. Â Killing neighbors for playing music loudly - illegal. Â Killing a person breaking into your house - legal. You might notice that I did not mention tracking gun owners, because that is not part of gun control. Â We do not need state or federal databases of who owns which gun, and allowing the government to track the situation is to voluntarily give back some civil liberty. Â I realized that this is a problem when the Journal News published an online map of gun owners in the New York counties of Westchester and Rockland. Â At first, I felt furious that this newspaper would violate people's rights with such a stunt. Â Then I realized that the newspaper simply used an existing database to pull the information, and I wondered why the database existed in the first place. Â Does the government really need to know who owns a particular gun? What would you do, if you could create your own gun control?
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