[PapaBear3625]

It’s physically impossible to close the gun show loophole. It’s really a private sale loophole, and there’s logistically not a damn thing you can do about private sales.

Wanna bet?

If TSA can deploy to do bag searches of people getting off a BUS in Houston, then ATF can do surprise inspections of people at a gun range, recording ID and gun serial numbers, and questioning people whose guns do not appear in the ATF database.

They CERTAINLY can get away with looking at any guns you try to transport in checked baggage on airlines, and checking if the serial numbers show them as being owned by you in the ATF database.

Don't think they won't try this.

[discostu]

None of those would get me, don’t ride the bus, my range is the wide open desert, don’t fly. With 311 million people in the country going below the radar is easier than people think.

[Teacher317]

If TSA can deploy to do bag searches of people getting off a BUS in Houston, then ATF can do surprise inspections of people at a gun range, recording ID and gun serial numbers, and questioning people whose guns do not appear in the ATF database.
They CERTAINLY can get away with looking at any guns you try to transport in checked baggage on airlines, and checking if the serial numbers show them as being owned by you in the ATF database.
Don't think they won't try this.

They may try. The easy counter is to simply not carry your privately-acquired arms on a bus, plane, or at a public range. When they come to check my privately-acquired, inherited, self-milled, and-or 3D printed firearms at my residence, well, then things have gone far enough, that I just have to make sure I remove more of them than there are of me. A 2-to-1 kill ratio for everyone like me should do enough damage that it stops pretty quickly.