Is This A “Roadmap For Gun Reform” Or Just Another Dead End?

By Cam Edwards

AP Photo/Charles Krupa

Richard Feldman is a former NRA lobbyist who’s spent the last decade or so billing himself as the leader of a “Third Way” on gun issues; neither “NRA absolutism” nor “gun control extremism”. His latest attempt at trying to blaze a new path towards “gun reform”can be found at Politico, where he offers up several suggestions to Congress, starting with background checks.

Feldman correctly notes that the phrase “universal background checks” is a non-starter for many gun owners who fear becoming criminals for loaning a firearm to a buddy for a hunting trip, selling a gun to a cousin or a nephew at a family reunion, or any number of non-criminal transfers of a firearm. Feldman’s solution? Let’s kinda sorta have universal background checks but not really, only on commercial sales.

So why not extend the Brady background check to all commercial sales, including gun shows, internet sales and flea markets, while carefully and responsibly crafting exemptions for relatives, friends and co-workers whom the seller has personally known for more than a year? And in cases where there is some doubt about the relationship, let’s encourage people to get the checks by giving them the same liability …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms