Defend your right to own a car.

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There are liberal think tanks and universities, as well as the FBI, ATF, and DOJ, that constantly study crime and guns. We do not need the government to finance more studies that do not have any real chance of making changes. Let private groups come back with recommendations, then limit studies to specific possible improvements.

As I said before, if I felt we had enough good information out their to make logical policy decisions, I wouldn't ask for any more government intervention.

There will be no black list on guns, and the no-fly list is more than just an approval or rejection. No software database is built on this scale without running a history of transactions (every request is a transaction), and there are many business intelligence programs that are utilized to generate active reports. Once of these is COGNOS, which is an IBM product, and is specifically designed to query giant databases to generate drill-down reports. Do you think that the government would only request that the database not keep history tables? Anyone approved for a purchase would be searchable in the database, and there you would have the beginnings of a simple registry list.

Why does it have to do what the no-fly list does? Why can't it just be a simple blacklist? I actually don't care what the government wants to do, I'm just trying to develop an idea that I think is appropriate in my opinion. Even if they record transactions, the database should just show approval or denial. Just because someone's name was ran, doesn't mean a sale was necessarily made and there is no reason any information about how many guns, what kind of gun, serial numbers, or anything like that needs to be included.

I assumed that you would have heard Obama's or Biden's speeches, considering how the media has published summaries of them, along with the quotes.

Of course, but it doesn't mean I believe everything that comes out of their mouths. C'mon, they are politicians. If you take anything they say at face value, you deserve your ignorance. If you know private guns transactions aren't traced, as Obama and Biden also regularly state, then it's obvious that they can't know how many private transfers are made with any precision.