Preaching to the choir here, but is a sample I post on Facebook on similar articles for the benefit of the non-gun owning people follows - use/add to any part when you post to for similar media Comments Section posts:
A clever variation of the “I am a gun owner . . . BUT” meme. Just more gun control masking as a “reasonable” discourse.
The tip-off is here: “I believe that all gun owners should have to pass a background check,”
In order to undergo a background check, you must register your firearm. It isn’t called that, just that you have to fill out a BATF Form 4473, which among 20-odd personal questions, including race, asks for the make, model, type, caliber and serial number of each gun.
Mind you, the excuse is that they only want to keep guns away from nutters and criminals - a noble goal which all of us support. If that is their real goal, please tell me why, if I buy more than one firearm at a time, I have to only pass one background check, but have to fill out a 4473 for each gun? Can you spell REGISTRATION?
These forms are not to be sent to the govt. until the dealer goes out of business. Evidently the BATF can’t wait that long as it has been reported by many FFLs that the agents are photocopying their entire book of filled out forms. Why, Ms. Cary?
Actually, those forms end up in the ATF database rather quickly.
They call you in to the background check, and they list the serial numbers while doing so.
Not true. If you buy 5 firearms at one time, you fill out the Form 4473 and each firearm is listed on the back of the Form 4473. If you buy only one, then the FFL will draw a diagonal line across the remaining empty lines in the table. If I were to purchase 3 stripped AR lowers, I would fill out the Forn 4473 and each serialized lower would go on a separate line. My local FFL/transfer agent charges me $18 to transfer N number of items on one 4473 from a another FFL. I have to pay $18 for EACH different FFL, but only once for multiple items from the same FFL on one 4473.