No. of Recommendations: 4
What is dishonest is pretending that this administration is making any effort to screen these people in regard to their potential for crime or anything else for that matter.
There's this thing called the Constitution. I'm pretty sure that people who have done nothing wrong cannot be screened for something they may or may not do in the future.
In any event, people who do have a mark on their records have no problem acquiring one of the many thousands of unsecured guns that are stolen every month from homes and cars. A simple regulation requiring effective storage would substantially reduce the number of guns available to people who can't buy one from an FFL.
But you knew that.
"The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which compiles crime stats submitted by 15,875 of 18,674 U.S. law enforcement agencies around the country, estimates that more than $135 million worth of firearms were reported stolen by gun owners in 2020, the most recent year data is available. If we say each gun was valued at about $450 each (the Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates the average price per stolen gun is between $400 and $500), that comes out to about 300,394 guns reported stolen from private owners in 2020.
In a 2017 survey of gun owners, Azrael and her colleagues arrived at a higher figure for guns reported missing each year, around 380,000."
