The problem with the above is, all those millions of background check applications will just populate and update the current database. It will tell the feds who owns the newly purchased guns, where they live, and what specific guns to be confiscated.eCat wrote:What polling correlates this to Americans wanting gun control?
Gun sales are surging after the weekend mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, fueled by first-time buyers seeking pistols they can carry with them for protection.
The latest jump validated a big increase in purchases and background checks recorded by the FBI that show the four most recent months higher than the same months in 2018.
What’s more, the trend in the “National Instant Criminal Background Check System,” or NICS, is on a path to make 2018 the second biggest year since 2016, when gun owners and prospective gun owners filled stores before the presidential election that was expected to elect gun control advocate Hillary Rodham Clinton.
According to the latest NICS numbers just released, this year there have been nearly 16 million background checks, which are done for gun sales, applications for concealed carry permits and other gun-related legal issues.
Coincidentally, my great uncle, who is in his 90’s, has been buying a lot of guns recently, and giving them to his great nephews as gifts. I turned him down, of course. I don’t own any guns.