Without the right of the people to keep and bear arms, how are they supposed to protect themselves?

[Rucker61]

Lots of NRA whine here. First the CDC, one report is close to 20 years old, the other a simple numbers report- no study or recommendations on the issue. The rest more than 30 years old.

There are over 100 studies by the Chan School of Public Health at Harvard and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. What do you expect the CDC to come up with that they haven't? The CDC doesn't even have any experts on staff - they'd have to contract out studies, likely to the very same people at Chan and Bloomberg.

Why are CDC studies so important to you? Is it to perhaps provide governmental support for EOs? They certainly won't convince anyone to change their minds on either side of the aisle in Congress or in the voting booths across the country?

Why is it only gun control advocates who want the CDC to conduct studies on gun control?

Next, the FFL responsibilities- since an FFL can expect a visit every decade by the ATF, has little to fear from failure to report multiple sales there is little teeth in the reporting rules.

My local gun shop gets visits every two or three years and passes with flying colors. The ATF told them that they hate coming to visit them because their volume of sales creates so much paperwork that the ATF has to go through. They'd much rather visit FFLs operating out of their homes. Why wouldn't an FFL report multiple sales? Why do you think that they would deliberately ignore the law.

You need to cite a source for the 2/3rds of the 'guns' traced to cali came from cali???

https://www.atf.gov/file/146966/download

https://www.atf.gov/file/137061/download

https://www.atf.gov/docs/undefined/cawebsite17183919pdf/download

https://www.atf.gov/file/119241/download

Did find when 25% of buyers avoided the back round check.

California has a UBC. Of course, it doesn't do anything.

"The simultaneous implementation of CBC (comprehensive background checks, aka UBC) and MVP (misdemeanor violence policy) policies was not associated with a net change in the firearm homicide rate over the ensuing 10 years in California. The decrease in firearm suicides in California was similar to the decrease in nonfirearm suicides in that state. Results were robust across multiple model specifications and methods."

Garen Wintemute, 2019

California's comprehensive background check and misdemeanor violence prohibition policies and firearm mortality

In 1991, California implemented a law that mandated a background check for all firearm purchases with limited exceptions (comprehensive background che…

www.sciencedirect.com

A rare win for ending firearm violence through illegal sales- Osage County FFL holder sold 19 firearms without recording name, age, residence, or doing a Back round check. ATF busted him, and this is 2021. I could drag more in here but the real facts are FFLs have so little to fear from the ATF they have little incentive to follow the law.

Yet the vast majority do. Being honest citizens is sufficient to have the incentive to follow the law.

I'll agree it's a failure of government- failure to give enforcement the tools and manpower to stop felonies at FFLs....

Just what would it take to "stop felonies at FFLs"?

If a man shows drunken behavior and you give him the keys to your truck... same thing...

If a man isn't drunk and you give his the keys to your truck...Looking to borrow a gun isn't a common sign of future criminal activity.