Only a fool believes that another law will prevent criminals from buying guns.
This is supposed to be a Constitutional republic, supposedly in which the rights of individuals are not subject to being voted out on a whim by a tyrannical majority, even if they just "wanna feel safe".
The 2nd Amendment says, "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." If I have to get a government background check to use my buddy's shotgun, AR, or Glock, that's an infringement. If I have to get a background check to buy a gun, that's an infringement by the government on my rights.
It is not the government's place to say who should or should not own a gun, unless that person is a convicted felon. If government wants to provide a list or a database of convicted felons where people can check a potential buyer if they want, that's fine. But the SECOND the government is in charge of denying you a gun sale, that's an infringement. See the difference?
There’s nothing about UBCs in the Constitution.
I should register with a dictator.
Note to said dictator: F__k You!!!!!!!!!!
Reason number 1: Because it's de facto Universal Gun Registration. Taking both the Second and Fourth Amendments into consideration, such measures are inherently un-American, and indeed unconstitutional.
There don't need to be many more reasons than that.
George Washington, the father of our country, was involved after the War. He helped draft the Constitution during the Summer of 1787. In the words of historian John Fiske, Washington "lent his character and experience toward securing the adoption of such a federal constitution as should make anything like a dictatorship forever unnecessary and impossible".
It is in that spirit I speak when I say that any Law which would so directly enable potential Tyranny of that magnitude in the United States is Tyrannical, and, almost by definition, unconstitutional.
Vote Trump!
If liberals can have whole cities and states ignore immigration law for years without consequence, liberals have established the precedence for conservative states to opt out of new federal gun laws. In fact, for conservatives, the refusal to implement new stricter gun laws is stronger because their freedom from those restrictive laws is more closely tied to the Constitution.