Require that the transaction be done at a police station with paperwork showing a background check has been done. And issue/require a Bill of Sale with a copy going to the IRS so the proceeds are treated as income, with taxes due.

so private sales are not an issue. Many cities and states have the same requirement.

EVERYONE knows you don't go inside. The real deals are in the parking lot. I have been with people who have bought and sold guns in this manner. Cops/security driving around and never see a thing...I want to know how they are going to stop THAT.

after that, you have to convince the public it is worth the effort.

For any private party sale of anything?

brokered by an authorised dealer who will comply with all the background checks and submit the proper forms to the proper authorities. The buyer/seller can quibble over who pays his fee. ALL weapons should be required to have a certified bill of sale. If you can't prove you own it, you don't get to keep it + fine and jail time for multiple offenses. Catch a dealer faking it, automatic prison time.

Instead of paying a dealer to run the NICS background check, why not let the private seller do it instead of prohibiting the private seller from doing it?

I (and many, many others) have long advocated for publicly available background checks.

So far, we have all been studiously ignored by the gun-averse

It's not about guns; it's about control.

(My little poem for today.)

However I know of no one who has been prosecuted for this.

... we've been told on here that average citizens can't be trusted not to use the NICS system for frivolous and slanderous reasons. This assumes, of course, that the miscreants would be willing to risk the felony charges involving in creating fraudulent and fictitious gun purchases just to potentially embarrass an enemy.

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NICS was never intended to be universal and never intended to be accessed by the public. Private sales are for the most part the default method of buying guns in the USA. Sales from FFL's are common but not really the norm.

NICS was set up to be used by LE, not bombarded on a larger scale by civilian use. FFL sales are usually the norm, as this is the only way to get newly made firearms and newly imported surplus arms into circulation. Some used firearms go through FFL's some don't. No way to get #'s on the latter for comparison.