Imagine how many background checks would have been done if everybody was required to do them.
Criminals are already required to do them.....they just don't do them...that is why we call them criminals.....
No. Criminals are not required to do them. They can buy all the guns they want from individual sellers. That includes their friends and family who happen to be legal individual sellers.
Untrue, when they do that they are committing a FELONY, that is called a strawman sale and unsurprisingly they do it anyway.
Only if the cops can prove the seller was aware that the buyer is prohibited from buying the gun. Without any requirement for any identification, or any other information, and no requirement to report the attempted purchase by someone prohibited, even if the seller did know it, who is going to know? How is a seller who can reasonably claim he didn't know, going to be guilty of a straw purchase?
And that's where my suggestion of a free background check comes in. No registration, we just want to a background check on the person buying the gun. Why do you resist that?