[anothersteve]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

Have you heard of the Gun Control Act of 1968. This federal law established a NATIONWIDE set of regulations that regulate the sale, possession, and transportation of firearms for all states and territories.
What do you mean about accountability for buyer and seller? If a gun dealer sells a firearm to a prohibited individual he has broken the law. If a prohibited person obtains a firearm he has committed a felony. News flash, criminals don't obey the law.
States can and do have laws in addition to what the federal government has laid down. As I pointed out in another post Florida has a 3 day waiting period before you can take possession of a firearm after successfully completing a background check.
Do you read my posts? I stated earlier that a person cannot go into another state and purchase a handgun and walk out the door with it. The gun must be transferred to a licensed gun dealer in the purchasers home state where the individual must pass a background check before taking possession of the gun. If the gun is prohibited in the purchasers home state or if the individual cannot legally own the firearm, he/she will not get it from the gun dealer. A private individual cannot sell an out of state resident a handgun. It must be transferred to a licensed dealer in the purchasers home state just as a gun dealer must do. Long guns are treated a bit differently and can be purchased out of state but if the home state of the purchaser prohibits that firearm the out of state dealer cannot sell the rifle to him. Even if an out of state purchaser is able to obtain a rifle that is banned in his home state he is still violating the law for possessing it.
Were cars designed for drunk drivers to operate? How about axes, they were a weapon of war but are also used to cut down trees. Knives were and still are weapons of war in addition to being used in the kitchen. Clubs were definitely used first as weapons but we don't regulate baseball bats do we. The fact that guns were originally designed as weapons mean nothing. My point which you don't seem to accept is that nearly any item can be used as a weapon to injure or kill another person. In the absence of a firearm a determined individual will find another tool to use to commit the crime. Yes there would be fewer gun homicides but there would be more by other means.
I take great offense to your statement and take it as insult that if a person uses a gun in target practice it is only to enable them to be more effective in killing. You don't know me. I have never killed anyone in my life, I've never threatened anyone with a gun either. I have no desire or daydreams of killing someone. I am just as sickened by the senseless killings going on in this country as anyone else. There are millions of gun owners in this country who think just like me about the violence.

Well said. Thank you. There have been many links posted that obviously have not been read.
Steve