Firearm transfers; criminal history record information checks, penalty. (HB2)

This bill is long overdue. However, a comment on another bill introduced states that AR whatever rifles are still used in competition. If they are used in competition, they are around in our environment and in houses.

this puts us on the road to confiscation. A horrible bill

The RAND Corporation did a study on background checks, analyzing other studies. It found that background checks had an inconclusive effect — they might decrease suicide and violent crime.

https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/background-checks.html

This begs the question: If current background checks show no measurable effects, how are universal background checks expected to make any difference?

Commonsense would seem to dictate that background checks would have a major effect, but they do not. This means the idea of performing background checks in the first place is a panacea. It makes people feel that they’re doing something while also causing the following problems:

1. Presumption of innocence. A background check requires people to prove they’re innocent before they take ownership of a firearm. Doesn’t this violate a basic American premise — the presumption of innocence?

2. Malum prohibitum. Background checks are part of a trend in which laws are created to prevent things from happening by making something illegal by statute instead of punishing actual behavior. Eventually, everything will be prohibited by statute because every action can be potentially malicious.

3. Nationalization of gun ownership. If universal background checks are implemented at the federal level, this puts the government into everyone’s home. When one wants to dispose of private property -- one's firearm -- one can longer do so without asking permission from the government. This makes every gun the property of the state and is questionable constitutionally. It also brings into question the constitutionality of universal background checks at the state level.

4. Unenforceability without universal registration. In order to trace a firearm from its manufacture all the way to its latest destination, every transfer would need to be documented along the way (universal registration). That would be the only manner in which to verify whether or not someone had transferred the firearm to someone in a private transaction without a background check. Today, once a firearm leaves a licensed dealer and goes to a private citizen after a NICS (National Instant Check System), the trail goes cold.

5. Uselessness. Nearly every mass shooting and nearly every crime in the US was committed with a firearm purchased after a background check, with a gun acquired via a straw buyer, on the black market, or stolen.

Background checks are already a solution in search of a problem. Universal background checks are a problem in search of a problem that would lead to even bigger problems and restrictions of our rights.

This bill is simply a Trojan horse for registration, which is an essential tool for confiscation backed under unconstitutional bills like SB16.