I've had the part-time job of selling guns in sporting goods stores at various times in my life. It is interesting to look back at the different periods and the different ways we had to do things. I remember when we could sell the person a gun, but not ammo at the same time. I remember the 5 day waiting period time for taking a purchased gun home. One thing that remained consistent was the paperwork that the store had to keep for the Government. Pre and Post background check we would have ATF or FBI come in and look through the paperwork when a gun was used in a crime. That is the only place that the gun is tied to the purchaser. What a Universal background check, done at a FFL store/site would do is complete the paper trail. The background check itself only clears the transaction, it doesn't record what gun you have bought or sold. In the past, when I have done a private sale of one of my guns, I kept a signed (by me and the guy buying the gun) receipt showing the gun and serial number that I sold. Just in case the gun was ever used in a crime. The Feds can only track the gun by serial number by getting the store that the firearm was sold to, and then physically going to the store and going through file cabinets of paperwork to see who that gun was sold to.They tried several years back to get that data into a federal data base, but that was blocked by the courts.

You don't have to have a database for universal background checks.

Why is the first responds to punish ever one who didn't do it? Seems a short trip to a firing squad makes more sense.

I don't know that it's wrong for them to try and trap people, because you selling a gun, you may not know that person and if they are lying to you. You also don't have the way to background check so to be trapped seams wrong to me.

I would suggest if you know you can't buy a gun and you try that should be a felony, but even if it would to become law what would anyone do about it. I say nothing so no matter what you put in place the only ones hurt are honest law abiding people criminals will always find away.

this is all correct from what I have been told when I question store owners while I was buying guns.

We absolutely still need to make schools safer. I don't understand how this hasn't already been addressed. At least one armed guard and bullet proof exterior glass should be the bare minimum requirements.

It sure is and I know a guy sells weapons privately (buys and sells CONSTANTLY) but ALWAYS keeps a bill of sale with serial number. Saved his arse one day as we were at his house for a bbq and 3 blacked out SUV's roll up. When answering the door, they asked about a firearm that he had bought at a local gun shop. Told him he sold it and went to his gun safe, pulled out a big stack of bill of sales and gave a copy to them. Cleared his name right then and there. If that one document did not exist, he would of been taken in for questioning, guaranteed.

No, the government would never keep a record of every gun you buy and register and be able to come to your house at any time, and for any reason that serves their purposes.

After our school shooting a few years back there was a bond measure on the ballot to do just that. People voted it down because they didn't want their taxes raised. It was on the ballot again this year along with other school upgrades for covid ventilation and so forth, and yup, it got voted down again. People want it done, but they don't want to pay for it.

Actually there is no viable reason to hold a bond issue for these things. Schools are infrastructure and we just passed a trillion some odd dollar bill for infrastructure. Where is that money? Oh that's right some of it went to improving the park in San Francisco and other pork projects instead of schools. How far would 53 billion dollars go that went to a corrupt nation? The money is already there but all this stuff has been politicized. For verification one only needs to look at a former POTUS comparing the Texas tragedy to George Floyd yet liberals say they want to come together with us. It's all BS and eventually the responsibility to protect your children will be on you and that won't be done without the 2nd. Just my opinion.

Well I am telling you, they came to his house and had questions right then and there about a handgun with a serial number in question. The above statement is correct about ATF coming and getting a name off a 4473 form. When I worked at sportsmans, they did it every so often. If there is a firearm bought and used in a crime, they can and will figure out who the original buyer was and follow a paper trail if there is one.

I was being sarcastic. Of course government will use any and every tool at its disposal for any purpose government wants, constitutional or not. Phone records, wiretaps, eavesdropping...we already know about a lot of it. There is a lot more that we as citizens haven't learned about yet.