It doesn’t fix anything.

Ok -Let me try one more time.
A “loophole” in this sense is someone performing a legal act that results in something illegal.

Example -In Indiana weed is still illegal and smoking it is illegal. HOWEVER - thanks to the religious freedom law they passed there -If weed smoking is part of your religion, you cant get in trouble. So there is now a “Church of cannabis” where members use the legal religious of freedom law to get away with a illegal act.

Today -in some states like FL - It is illegal for a gun dealer to sell a gun to someone who fails a background check or who states they are going to use the weapon in a crime. However -a private seller doesn’t have to do a background check or even ask why the person wants the gun. So a seller can perform a legal act (Sell a gun to a stranger) that results in a illegal act (Someone who cant pass a background check now has a gun).

Got it?
So yes - the law DOES fix the loophole.
It may not STOP people who can’t pass a background check from getting a gun - but it DOES close the loophole that allows it legally and easily.

The result will be less gun crime. JUST like the result was less gun crime after the brady bill based and background checks were required and became the NICS.

Who committed the illegal act?

DING DING DING!! Thats the point!

Its illegal for the buyer, who would have failed a background check, to have the gun but it was NOT illegal for the seller to sell it to him without running a background check, or even asking him his name!
This is why it is a loophole…

So close the loophole!

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Does the law require you to check with the gov’t before giving someone else a beer?

No because it’s a private transfer. If you illegally give it to someone who can’t legally possess it you face the consequences when caught.

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Yet all it could accomplish is to increase the number of gun related crimes when people refuse to follow the new law because it violates our most basic rights protected under our constitution and BOR.

It’s already a crime to transfer or even all access to a firearm to someone that is legally ineligible to possess same.

No law you’re going to pass is going to prevent those with ill intent from getting access to firearms and as it is prosecutions for illegally passing firearms to ineligible persons are rarely prosecuted.

Fully enforce existing firearms laws for a decade the come back and we’ll sit down and talk about what more might be needed and how best to go about it.

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There is no loophole now.

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You’re of course wrong. It is a felony to knowingly transfer a firearm to an ineligible person. If you know or have reason to believe they are ineligible you can be held civilly and criminally liable.

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Get them strict and granular enough… that’s the goal. Always has been. Bit by bit.

If he’s pushing this he is.

So you and your GF meet at the park and make out. Does the gov’t have any business being involved?

You whisper sweet nothings into her ear at a restaurant, does that entitle the gov’t to a record of exactly what you said?

Who committed the illegal act?

What about selling a used car to someone that has had their license revoked for drunk driving?

Who’s the onus on? Should we require all auto sales can only be performed by licensed car dealers, who will charge for their time, and that they must conduct a check on every buyer?

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Yes, I’ve been told to take it elsewhere on occasion.

If instead of whispereing, I sell her something, it entitles the government to collect appropriate taxes and paperwork. (Lilke that time I bought a car in a restaurant)

Your fixing nothing.
More feel good crap that does not prevent anything.
How about you go after the real criminals and start to fix things NOW.
But that’s to hard and might put real criminals in jail. Can’t have that.
But hey we all know that is not what this is all about. It has nothing to do with reducing crimes committed with guns.

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The gov’t tells you to take it elsewhere? Citing what law?

No, there is no regulation of a private transfer. The purchaser only has to pay the taxes and registration fees if they choose to drive it on the public roads.

The only thing you’d be required to do is report the income.

You are not required to perform any sort of background check or anything else on the buyer, no prior restraint.

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