I mean in the scheme of ways to completely confiscate arms, ghost guns are the most difficult to track and catch. It would be easier to go after everyone who did a background check at an FFL with records of each gun they purchased. So why ghost guns?
Same reason they want universal background checks (HR8). They need a watertight registry first (and right now the 4473 system has way too many holes in it to be used as a registry, thanks to private sales) before they can get to confiscating guns.
I'd think that they would do their very best to discourage (either through carrot or stick) people from selling guns privately in the same way that states that already have UBC laws manage to enforce theirs. The problem (from their POV) is any gun from before the UBC has plausible deniability. And there are half a billion such guns out there. The main problem (from our POV) is too many gun sellers would insist on getting a background check (and filling out a 4473) before selling a gun. That would make acquiring an unregistered firearm very hard in the future, although that's a long term solution for them, not a short term one. Short term, there's really not a whole lot they can do without our help (compliance) about what's already in circulation, so they may just figure that it's easier to go after the "undesirables" themselves instead of our guns. After all, it was never our guns that they were after, it was always us. Our guns are just in the way. Though it does seem very much like they're playing both the long-game and the short-game simultaneously right now.
I mean in the scheme of ways to completely confiscate arms, ghost guns are the most difficult to track and catch. It would be easier to go after everyone who did a background check at an FFL with records of each gun they purchased. So why ghost guns?
Same reason they want universal background checks (HR8). They need a watertight registry first (and right now the 4473 system has way too many holes in it to be used as a registry, thanks to private sales) before they can get to confiscating guns.
So what will be done about purchases at FFLs before ubc is imposed? Not arguing, just wondering
I'd think that they would do their very best to discourage (either through carrot or stick) people from selling guns privately in the same way that states that already have UBC laws manage to enforce theirs. The problem (from their POV) is any gun from before the UBC has plausible deniability. And there are half a billion such guns out there. The main problem (from our POV) is too many gun sellers would insist on getting a background check (and filling out a 4473) before selling a gun. That would make acquiring an unregistered firearm very hard in the future, although that's a long term solution for them, not a short term one. Short term, there's really not a whole lot they can do without our help (compliance) about what's already in circulation, so they may just figure that it's easier to go after the "undesirables" themselves instead of our guns. After all, it was never our guns that they were after, it was always us. Our guns are just in the way. Though it does seem very much like they're playing both the long-game and the short-game simultaneously right now.