Why Red Flag Laws Won't Work.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Ok, so how is a gun shop owner supposed to KNOW how the guns he sells are going to be used?  If a person passes a background check and doesn't appear to be agitated when purchasing a weapon, on what grounds should the shop owner refuse the sale?

Boru

Holy shit, nobody is expecting a shop owner to read minds, that is precisely why they shouldn't simply say " no record"...

Did you not read what I just posted. The shop owner ASSUMED the guy who bought the weapon was ok because of no record. If it worked like that in reality "no record" would always mean the buyer after a legal buy would never go on to get violent. 

The guy literally said "He looked fine to me"..... Obviously that was not the case. 


"No record" at time of buy does not prevent the buyer from getting violent after a legal buy.

I agree they don't know what is in the mind of the buyer, which is why they should give a fuck and not simply say, "OK".

Otherwise why not let any Joe Shmo have a passenger Jet licence to fly merely because they have never crashed a plane.

I get what you're saying, but you aren't answering my question.  I'll try to re-phrase it.

A person wishes to purchase a firearm.  The shop owner checks and finds out that this person has no record, has never been in serious trouble with the law.  Furthermore, the purchaser doesn't seem agitated or upset.  Maybe he jokes and chats with the shop owner about the weather, or about the local sports franchise. The seller has no legal reason, no 'gut feeling', no evidence or intimation at all that the purchaser plans to go do-lally fucknuts and start mowing people down.

Based on that, why should the shop owner refuse to sell this person a gun?  What criteria would you have gun sellers use to deny a sale?

Boru