Background checks make guns more expensive

Class Warfare Alert! The enemy wants background checks to keep the poor from buying guns:

I bought a 1943 Enfield rifle from a buddy last year. I own several guns, but under a universal background check law, we’d have to take the gun to a dealer and have him run a background check. Under last year’s failed Senate bill, the dealer could charge up to a $125 fee, plus the $5 background check fee. That’s not pocket change, especially since the gun is only worth $200.

Do you think criminals will go through a dealer? I doubt it. Law-abiding citizens would be stuck with the expense and inconvenience. Criminals would ignore the law, just as they ignore other laws. It wouldn’t reduce gun crime in the slightest. Criminals would get their guns the same way they get their cocaine and heroin. Those drugs are illegal, but easy to buy everywhere.

The real purpose of a universal background check law is to discourage people from buying guns by making it more difficult and expensive. No one actually thinks it would reduce crime. The Senate bill failed because it was an obvious anti-gun law. Voters saw that, slammed their senators with calls and emails and the senators did their job, voting to represent their constituents.

Source: http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20140209/OPINION/140207019/Letter-Background-checks-will-make-gun-buys-costlier