[goldstategop]

Gun shops are subjected to pointless paperwork and nothing has proven it deters crime in any way. The point is all those regulations are impossible to comply with because there are too many of them. We have a plethora of gun control laws on the books and they haven't caught ONE criminal with a gun he wasn't allowed to have and all they have done is forced law-abiding citizens out of business. That's wrong in a free country.

(Go Israel, Go! Slap 'Em, Down Hezbullies.)

[driftdiver]

"Gun shops are subjected to pointless paperwork and nothing has proven it deters crime in any way."

IMO, detering crime is not the point. The paperwork and laws are making it hard to stay in the business which is their purpose.

"That's wrong in a free country. "

They are working on that as well.

[SauronOfMordor]

In the years leading up to the Gun Control Act of 1968, you could buy a gun for cash, no records kept, no ID required.

I grew up in the 60's. In 1967, with little significant gun control, a little kid could bicycle through large areas of most big cities without any worries. That's because we concentrated on keeping bad guys in jail, instead of trying to make the world a big playpen for psychopaths