It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.
The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.
Great news!
Now, on to the hard part: getting it passed by the state senate.
Seems odd that the law would have passed any Constitutional test. Can you imagine if a state passed a law stating you were only allowed to pray 1x a month, or have a public gathering in your home 1x month? Post online, read a book, have a phone conversation ... the list is endless.
How about only let those who are Constitutionally allowed to own a firearm, buy as many, as often as they like? Maybe keeping firearms out of the hands of Felons, and actully prosecuting Felons who have a firearm?
My latest “instant” background check was called in to the Virginia Ate Police on 27 January. I’m still waiting for an approval or denial. They’re “backlogged.”