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No, it doesn't, because if the bureaucratic system is dysfunctional, then the legislated solution is to block the sale of weapons.

If I go into Wal Mart and buy a gun I have to wait at the counter until the paperwork is sent through. If I lay my money down on the counter and walk off, I'm going to jail and have probably committed a federal offense.

On the other hand, if I make a private purchase from my next door neighbor, I give him the money he gives me the gun. The government doesn't know I have bought a weapon. No clearing house to go through.

[William Tell]

processing please hold said: "On the other hand, if I make a private purchase from my next door neighbor, I give him the money he gives me the gun. "

But, of course, those of us in Kalifornia face prison for failing to ask the government's permission to transfer a firearm.