10-04-2019, 05:17 PM
(10-04-2019, 04:23 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: What law does a license to own a firearm help police enforce?
Right now if police encounter a person with a gun they have no idea if that person is a convicted felon or mentally unstable, and if the person has no ID it is impossible to find out. Much easier to require anyone with a gun to have a license showing they are allowed to own that gun than yo have laws that are impossible to enforce.
Most of the other issues have to do with a gun registry instead of a license. The lack of a gun registry makes it almost impossible to enforce bans on selling guns to criminals. Police confiscate millions of weapons every year from criminals or crime scenes but they can't do anything to punish the people who supplied these guns because there is no record of ownership. Why should a "responsible" gun owner be opposed to being held "responsible" for his own weapons?
