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What is your point? How do you propose keeping guns out of the hands of people who obviously should not have them? If every citizen can legally obtain a gun (if qualified) how is a card system somehow a better form of tracking?

Apparently you didn’t see that my suggestion decouples the qualified individual from the purchase. Pre-qualifying individuals as being capable of purchasing a gun does not imply they actually own a gun. At the point of sale the verification process is greatly simplified and as secure a mechanism as we have today and does not require linking the gun to the owner in any database (which I think is what you are apposed too).

It bolsters our cause to keep guns out of the hands of as many criminals as possible. I personally would like to mandate training for new gun owners given the level of stupidity I’ve observed at various gun ranges. People who routinely violate standard safety protocols do as much if not more damage to our rights than criminals.

Liberals would have far fewer talking points if there weren’t so many cases of gun ignorance in the news.

That’s a form of registration.

I’d prefer total anonymity and no checks, too, but my proposal eliminates about half the “registration” we currently suffer. And if they register me and half the nation as gun owners, fine. Just don’t register my guns. The fact that a seller called is no proof that I bought. Moreover, such records will be of so little value even to the worst-intentioned that they will likely just be discarded, with no record actually kept.

Alternatively, if we made drivers licenses have en endorsement for disqualification to buy, they could be used. And if we allowed anyone to call to verify the currency and authenticity of a license for any reason, then the fact that someone called does not mean that it was for a gun (it could have been for cigarettes, or a check-cashing ID.)