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"Government should be the last place you go seeking solutions."

You say in 109, "Anyone who gives an insane person a weapon should be charged with a crime"? That's making the seller responsible for knowing the mental health and history of the purchaser, just as 922(g) does. You have already gone seeking a solution in government, to a problem you now say doesn't exist.

The NICS is supposed to balance that responsiblity, which the seller didn't ask for but you say should be his, with a tool that will reduce the impact of that "unfunded mandate" on the seller's business. This law is an attempt to make the NICS actually accomplish the goal you desire. Would you rather that the seller is just going through the motions to satisfy an empty bureaucratic request, wasting both his and the taxpayer's money?

Your first paragraph is correct after the first sentence and the second is debatable (I tend to agree), but they have no bearing on the discussion we've been having, which was begun by your comment in 109.

You say in 109, "Anyone who gives an insane person a weapon should be charged with a crime"? That's making the seller responsible for knowing the mental health and history of the purchaser...

It is a crime to knowingly give an insane person a gun or any other kind of weapon. No one can be 100% certain that any given person is not sane.

You have already gone seeking a solution in government, to a problem you now say doesn't exist.

I don't seek government solutions because government solves nothing. Insane people getting guns is not a problem requiring a remedy. We don't need Instacheck to esure that insane people don't get guns, or don't buy sharp kitchen utensils at Walmart, or power tools at Home Depot.

This is a government program going in search of a problem.

This law is an attempt to make the NICS actually accomplish the goal you desire.

If there's been a rash of insane people acquiring guns then the problem is insane people walking freely about, not the accessibility of guns.

There are so many reasons to oppose this government program. The federal government has no business doing this to begin with. It's a waste of taxpayers' money. It will undoutedly be used for purposes other than the one it's intended for. It will invariably become more expensive and intrusive.

What we need is the repeal of gun-control and the abolition of the War on Drugs, not another government program or government database.