BIDS

I've been calling for something like BIDS for years.  YEARS.  Glad others are of the same mind.  Maybe it'll spread even further.

You want universal background checks? Fine.  Just divorce the check from the serial number of the firearm.  Or if the sale happened at all. 

Joe Blow wants to sell a gun to John Schmoe this month?  John Schmoe got a valid background check this month, costing about $20?  Fine.

Why do it this way?  To protect innocent law abiding gun owners from gov't overreach.  What about the criminals?  What about them?  They were never doing ANY of this, at any rate. 

To continue the compromise, purge all previous background checks that are tied to serial numbers.  All good.  I was assure by both sides that it was never suppose to ever be a gun registry. 

Oh you didn't mean that?  Then forget it.  It's off.  You've always dealt with us American people in bad faith, then.  Repeal Brady AND the 1968 GCA.  Molon Labe, &c., &c.