[panaxanax]

“...have you ever sold a firearm in a private sale to someone unknown to you?”

Yes. I’ve also declined selling to a person that I didn’t ‘feel right’ about.

[The KG9 Kid]

My advice to private sellers is to record identification of those you sell to, whether they're known to you or not. If they refuse, that would be a huge 'you should bad feelings about this person' signal to me, and that person needs to be moving on down the road somewhere else.

If the firearm you sell turns up in a bad spot, you will be meeting with ATF or FBI at some point and they can be surprisingly quick and impolite about the visit and where it takes place. Oh, the stories I've heard from reputable people...

Best idea of all is that guns you acquire shouldn't be sold. That is my personal policy. No firearm I own is for sale. The shirt I am currently wearing, yes. Guns, no.

I have no problem with a NICS check at point-of-sale for new firearms. Even the USSC's Heller decision states this is perfectly reasonable, and that's that. What I object to is that mental reject screwballs like the Tuscon shooter don't make the NICS denial list when by all accounts they should be on it.