I'm sorry, did SQLBullet leave the gunshow with the gun or not? If he did, his rights are intact.
So then you're going on record that in your opinion Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was entirely wrong when he said, "A right delayed is a right denied"?
How would you keep people who are federally barred from owning guns from purchasing a gun?
First thing I'd do is prosecute people who set up straw man sales...starting with former Attorney General Holder, including making him accessory to homicide for every person killed with firearms he facilitated to prohibited possessors. Have to set an example, how can we expect the plebs to follow the rules when the "top cop" of the nation didn't?
Second, I'd prosecute each and every prohibited person who could be proven to have picked up a firearm...starting with all the celebrities with disqualifying offenses who use serialized modern firearms in film. Again, how can we expect people to follow the rules when we showcase people breaking them? Monkey see, monkey do. As a bonus this should also reduce the length of Awards shows for both the film and music industry.
Third, when a person with a pre-existing disqualification is arrested while in possession of a firearm I'd charge them under the existing statute...something that very rarely happens currently. I care very little where they purchased it, I care that they are in possession of it.
Skip the dream about everybody having the right to own a gun - we do not live in that world.
Right after you skip the dream about how background checks will stop felons and other bad actors from obtaining firearms with relative ease.
Deal with this reality, this now. How do you keep someone with a violent criminal past from walking into a gun store and buying a gun?
You keep them incarcerated until they are no longer a threat to the public. That also helps prevent them from buying one on the black market, stealing them, or making a firearm themselves...all much more common ways that people with criminal pasts obtain firearms in comparison to buying a gun at a brick and mortar store.
Now, I'll repeat the question I asked you which you avoided. I'll even expand upon it.
Can we institute universal background checks for voting?
After all, felons and non-US Citizens are not allowed to vote in Federal elections.
Isn't it worth an hour of your life to ensure that elections are legitimate and that votes are not being illegally cast by non-citizens? Russian Agents, for example.

Or illegal aliens, if you're prone to considering something so unfeasible and unlikely.

Isn't it worth an hour of your life to ensure that elections are legitimate?
I mean the argument against requiring verified ID proving that you're a US Citizen before you can vote on the grounds that it's an unfair burden on poor and minorities due to the expense of obtaining such ID or that such a requirement would have a chilling effect on people in those demographics exercising their right of franchise is obviously ridiculous. The requirement to procure such ID and produce it before each and every purchase of a firearm from an FFL, also the exercise of a right protected by our Constitution, doesn't produce such a burden or chilling effect...right?
