On March 23, 2021, public health and law enforcement officials and community advocates testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on ways to reduce gun violence.
The hearing focused on ways to improve the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and implement other policies such as universal background checks, so-called “loophole closures“, and waiting periods for firearm purchases.
I’ve been doing this long enough to know that the mainstream media will only show you the anti-gun side of these arguments so over the next few days, I’m going to be showing you the other side of these arguments.
A Universal Background Check would make it illegal for you to give or sell one of your guns to a cousin or friend without first making them pay to have a gun store transfer the gun to them after doing a background check.
For Years, I’ve argued that this wouldn’t do anything to reduce gun violence because the vast majority of mass shooters passed a background check to get their gun and that a national gun registry is the only way to effectively enforce a universal background check system.
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In the following video, Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri questions Amy Swearer of the Heritage Foundation on how would law enforcement know if a transfer or sale of a gun between to private people had background checks under the universal background check system.
“The way these laws work is primarily retrospective. A crime is committed and we have law enforcement has the gun, they look at it, they say ‘where did this come from?’ and they backtrack to find out if the gun was purchased legally or through a private sale, etc.,” Swearer explained.
“It would seem to be the case that if the concern is private sales, the best way of retrospectively enforcing that is through a gun registry and the fear is when you have any sort of gun registration system, it is going to be used in the future as a launching pad for the next step and then the next step and so on.”
–Amy Swearer, Legal Fellow at The Heritage Foundation
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