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In reply to the discussion: What are you going to do this week to support expanded background checks? [View all]pipoman
(16,038 posts)private intrastate sales to have background checks? Background checks are required on the sale of every new gun purchase..it would seem if there is money behind any aspect of firearms sales, it would be behind gun manufacturers and FFL dealers. There is no money behind Joe selling his shotgun to his neighbor, or any non-dealer selling their private collection...Why wouldn't those FFL dealers and gun manufacturers want to even the field so that every sale would undergo the same scrutiny as their sales must undergo?
The answer is simple. There is no precedent for allowing federal regulation of private party sales of used, legal, personal property sold within a given state to another resident of the same state, that's why. It isn't required at the federal level because it can't pass scotus challenge if it were made a requirement.
Your only hope of there ever being a federal law requiring private sale checks is if 2/3 or more of states adopt such a law, then band together to amend the constitution.
Why do you suppose the NRA almost never tries to get new gun laws passed at the federal level? When they began lobbying for concealed carry, they didn't waste 1 minute trying to get concealed carry legalized at the federal level for exactly the same reason your wish for background checks on intrastate sales will never become a federal law...because it is constitutionally impossible..