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See "Prior restraint", above.Making sure I am not a criminal before I buy a gun, by running a background check, is not an infringement upon my rights.False premise, that you can pass a law that will prevent people from breaking the law, and that you can constitutionally enforce a law by restraining everyoner's actions until they are deemed by the state to not break that law.
It is illegal for felons/criminals to buy/possess guns. Like every other criminal law, this is enforced by an arrest, a trial and a conviction; like every other criminal law, it is not intended to prevent someone from committing a crime, but to provide a means to prosecute them when they do.
As you did not actually address my post, I shall assume you agree with it and have allowed it to stand.
so how do we prevent felons and illegal aliens from buying a handgun at a gunstore?
make them promise that they are nice and legal?