It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.
The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.
“The Virginia Senate on Monday passed the House bill that repeals the states longstanding law limiting handgun purchases to one per month, sending the legislation to the desk of Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has said he would sign it. “
I hope he checked with Romney first to get his approval.
So what do you do if you want to purchase a his/her Valentine’s Day gift set???
It was obsolete from the Git-Go if they enforced the Straw Man rules on the 4473. A couple of high profile cases where the perp gets fined $5,000 and five years in a Federal penitentiary FOR EVERY VIOLATION would have snuffed that out real quick. However, the aim was just to make it harder for gun buyers and the Straw Man reg was conveniently overlooked.