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I would agree with pretty much all of that.
Here would be my additions
Eliminate the "I didn't know defense" for straw buyers The two main areas of IDK are :I didn't know that that person could not legally buy/own a firearm" and then "I did not know he was going to committ a crime" as the law stand now thanks to many NRA dreamed up "amendments put into "must pass bills" over the years the government must PROVE that that straw buyer KNEW that that person they were buying that firearm for was not allowed to buy one himself. They are not even really allowed to ask "why didn't you ask him why he did not just buy the thing himself" When it comes to charging that person as some kind of accessory like they are talking about with the Waffle House shooters dad, the government has to prove that straw buyer knew they were going to go out and commit a crime. and unless they "confess" or there are other witnesses which is NOT the norm it is all but impossible to prove what someone, anyone "knew"
Give the ATF the same technology to detect "straw buyers" that the DEA has had and used for years and years no to ID people buy "cold medicine' and other Meth ingredients at retail pharmacies. in other words give the NICS system a "memory" so that if little Johnie in Tuscon who is 18 and has never held a job and curretly as far as the IRS is concerned never earned dollar one is buying thousands of dollars worth or firearms every week that it would raise a red flag with the ATF the same way if someone is buying dozens of boxes of Sine-Aid per week the DEA gets notified and can go know on that persons door, now if they can show shelves full of Sine _aid or can show that they gave them to all these recognized charities, homeless shelters, soups kitchens and what not all of which can verufy yess they got them then fine. If not you get arrested In the case of little Johnie, if when he gets that knock on the door he can show racks and boxes full of firearms or can show who he sold them too so that can be verified then again fine. If not he gets arrested.
The "memory" could be a fixed time period lets say a year after which entries would "self delete", an easy S/W instruction to appease the "national data base" conspiracy theorists.
There were valid technology based reasons for the "gun show loophole" back in the early 90's. I remember seeing parts of the debate on C-SPAN and I think it was Orrin Hatch who sited the example of little "general store" type gun shops way out in the middle of no where that had no phone service and few people had a cell phone, most being "car phones" or 'bag phones" for anyone who remembers "gun shows" as we know them today did not even really exist prior to the 90's close as you got was the odd person selling few old used weapons at a table or two at your local flea market. Now in 2018 virtually everyone has at least a "dumbphone" which can make voice calls for background checks if most "smartphones" or tablets or wireless modem equipped laptops to do one on the web so that if now you are not doing a background check it is not because you can not it is because you "on purpose" do NOT want to. That would mean little Johnie in Tuscon would have to do one, so he could not just claim he sold them to "no one" and has no records of any sales which is now the case.
