Personally, I think it would be a good idea to do a background check when they rent a gun. The problem is that there is no facility to do a background check on such short notice. We have a local gun range where a mother and her 20 year old son went to the range and rented a gun. The mother killed the son, then killed herself. Turns out that she had been Baker Acted, yet they rented her a gun. There was no way the gun shop could have known that she had been Baker Acted. They complained to the State that the State would not let them do an instant background check, but to no avail. A month later, some guy went to the same range, rented a gun, and committed suicide. I was just there a few days ago. They are still not doing background checks because there is simply no way to do them.
Are you an ATF agent? You certainly have the mentality.
I suspect they’re also not *allowed* to refuse to rent a gun to someone just because they have a bad feeling about him/her, because as an establishment open to the public, that would be “discrimination” and they’d find themselves on the losing end of legal action.
In many cases, the management’s hunch might be more effective than a federal or state background check.
Please tell me how a background check is going to stop a suicide if some person wakes up one morning and decides to kill themself and their family members? Mom could have also rented a car and driven off a cliff. Are you going to do firearm background checks on car rentals?
Did you wet your pants?
They should be required to keep spare pants too, for those like you.
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$hit happens . Live with it !
Most gun clubs have membership fees. The one I shoot at, you must be a member to rent a gun: period end of story. They will not rent to a non-member.
I see no problem in denying a rental unless a member comes and signs off on the mental stability of their guest.
Easy way to weed out the nuts and wackos without infringing on my rights
If the woman had been determined to be mentally incompetent, why was she running loose? Ditto the felon. If they’re too dangerous to be allowed to posess weapons (which are very easy to obtain), why are they released from prison?
I’m tired of the lowest-common-denominator approach being to treat everyone like a criminal suspect or a terrorist.
So you are saying that background checks will stop suicides.
Pathetic you could believe that for even one second.
Govt is NOT the answer. Never is.
How about a background check to walk into any store selling guns? Anyone can take ammo in and load a gun they’re looking at.