Why do we need background checks? Why can’t we use the same system voters use? Instead of verifying your citizenship and residency at the bottom of the form, you sign at the bottom certifying that you are not a criminal or crazy. If it works for the voters, surely it would work for gun buyers.
Do away with background checks and restrictions altogether.
Anything else is simply losing slower.
We don't. They are a failed paradigm. From the beginning, they were designed to morph into a national registration system. We fought that, but it has been inching forward, bit by bit.
We should shuck the whole system and start over. It is expensive and not cost effective. The only thing it accomplishes with regularity, is to deny people their Constitutional rights. Most denials are false positives.