[backwoods-engineer]

I'm sorry, but as a 2nd Amendment purist, I think ALL Federal background checks are unconstitutional. It's actions that should be punished, not the mere possessions of deadly instruments. We got by just fine from 1782 to 1968 without federal background checks for guns. It's just institutionalized hoplophobia.

So, do I support MORE Brady-style background checks? NO.

[Voice of Reason88]

I meant that as a rhetorical question – as you said:

We got by just fine from 1782 to 1968 without federal background checks for guns. It's just institutionalized hoplophobia.

Agreed on both points.

Moreover, as someone else pointed out around here, If the “Background Check” is supposed to be about the person, Why do they need information about the gun being purchased?

If the transaction is above-board, then the gun being purchased should be “Federally approved” in as sense.

If they only thing they are seemingly concerned with is the purchaser, then the particular gun they are purchasing should be irrelevant.

But that isn’t the case, is it? Clearly, they want as much information about the transaction that they can get so that down the road they can move onto the next step: Registration.

[marktwain]

“We got by just fine from 1782 to 1968”

Actually, we did not have federal background checks for guns until 1994. It is a failed system. We should eliminate it.