As for dealer inventory checks, what on Earth are you talking about? ATF audits thousands of dealers a year and requires strict record keeping. Usually missing more than 1-2 guns for a normal sized dealer means you lose your license forever.
NSSF has entire programs where dealers pay former ATF people just to come to help them with record keeping for audits. The NRA hasn't done anything to prevent those audits. They have called for ATF to prosecute some freakin' felons rather than have so much staff dedicated to audits, but they do 1,000s of them a year.
Your point is completely without factual basis. I don't know who sold that nonsense, but it's a lie. Period.
FWIW your assertion most of the gun crime in the US comes from guns stolen or illegally sold, that is partly correct but it is not by dealers that these things happen. In fact fewer than 8% of all guns used in crimes came from dealers in any way and the vast majority of those was by fraudulent means in which the dealer was fooled and not complicit, specifically straw purchases. I have a thread on here citing a DOJ study of felons in state and federal prisons and how guns were obtained for their crimes.
The Dealers are the most secure, most regulated, least problematic part of the industry. This idea they're running around breaking the law for a quick buck is nonsense. I'm sure there are some, but it's very few. Almost no guns that find their way into the criminal system are coming from "lost" guns in dealer inventory or guns dealers knowingly sold into that system. Those guns are stolen from private owners and friends/family.
Again, utter nonsense. First off, dealers breaking the law is a federal crime of the GCA, and a serious felony. You act as if b/c the city of Lexington may not prosecute a dealer they are getting off Scott free. Not hardly. Dealers are strictly monitored, audited, even covertly "tested" by ATF, and if they are guilty of something serious like knowingly providing guns to criminals they are guilty of a mountain of felonies.
Local and state law enforcement most certainly has access to trace data, it's in the GCA, and can and are most certainly prosecuted for breaking local and state laws. Again, your information is just wrong. Dealers are prosecuted for violating state and local laws.
Bookmarks