A basic fact confirmed by every study ever done by anyone is that legal gun owners commit violent crimes at an absurdly low rate. It’s almost non-existent. That’s with the laws as they are now, and have been in the past. So, what is the issue driving further restrictions to be applied to those legally possessing firearms, if it’s not simply political pandering?
The argument seems to be that legally acquired weapons are somehow finding their way to subsequent owners who acquire them in transactions that do not include background checks and other “safeguards” against guns falling into the hands of those who shouldn’t have them. Have there been any studies linking these types of firearms to, for example, mass shooting incidents? That’s the sort of evidence I’d like to see. Otherwise, it seems to me that there’s clearly a gun violence problem in this country, but the proposed new restrictions don’t really address that.