@ Contendah,
BFred’s post written by him makes a heck of a lot more sense than your cut & paste job.
Ms. Miller writes
"How many more massacres must Americans endure — the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the tragedy of Columbine, the Amish girls killings, the Virginia Tech murders, the Fort Hood tragedy, the Gabby Giffords shootings?"
What does Columbine, Amish, Va Tech, Gifford, and maybe even Ft. Hood shootings have in common? They all involved mentally defective people who, if they purchased their guns through an FFL dealer, lied on question 11 [f] on their 4473 application and there’s no way to do a background check on these people. Criminal checks, yes. Medical records including mental defectives, NO And I’ll bet anyone a dollar to a donut that this psycho Aurora shooter is going to be another.
The laws are in place but politicians both Democrats and Republicans will not push through any effort to enforce them. Make medical records having to do with mental illness available to law enforcement for God’s sake. Quit putting this on the backs of FFL dealers. They're not shrinks.
And why penalize folks like Jank and BFred? So long as they use their firearms responsibly and acquire them legitimately as millions of gun owners do, whose darn business is it how many they have. Someone may have one or two for home defense. A collector may have hundreds. So what?
Here’s the link to the application...On page 1, please read question 11 [f] and the instructions for it on page 4. And realize very little of this information can be checked out.
http://www.atf.gov/forms/download/atf-f-4473-1.pdf
Just occurred to me some of you might be looking at a 4473 for the very first time.