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3 Mass Shootings in 2 days

Your premise oversimplifies things. Life isn't like that.

Almost every gun used in any homicide, with extremely rare exception, was legally manufactured and legally purchased before it found its way into the hands of the hoodlum who murdered someone.
 
Almost every gun used in any homicide, with extremely rare exception, was legally manufactured and legally purchased before it found its way into the hands of the hoodlum who murdered someone.

And ?
 
Yes my point. You can buy a gun currently with no bc. That needs to change

In PA handgun sales have to go through FFL dealers and that includes private handgun sales. They're a good role model.
 

All lawfully owned guns started out as legally manufactured and sold guns. Nearly all illegally owned guns started out as legally manufactured and sold guns. The source of guns is not an issue that can be addressed by changing laws.
 
In PA handgun sales have to go through FFL dealers and that includes private handgun sales. They're a good role model.

And yet in PA bad guys still sell handguns to other bad guys without the benefit of a background check through an FFL, thus showing that UBC laws aren't intended to address criminal activity, but to criminalize even gun transfers between good guys.
 
And yet in PA bad guys still sell handguns to other bad guys without the benefit of a background check through an FFL, thus showing that UBC laws aren't intended to address criminal activity, but to criminalize even gun transfers between good guys.

We should work on keeping the bad guys who sell the handguns from getting the handguns in the first place.
 
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