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it is impossible to make the claim that the “loophole” must be closed
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First, you have to understand that the "loophole" they want closed is the buying and selling of private property between individuals obeying the law.
ALL the rest is simply BS made up to support what they want. ALL the studies, and their conclusions advocating gun control are frankly, crap. Or "smoke and mirrors" if you prefer.
of course your research was confusing, since you are looking at lies, and not well organized ones, at that.
I am not saying the actual facts are not actual facts, but the facts presented and the way they are presented are intentionally done to create a distortion of the truth.
Points to consider (and not all of them)
First, all gun traces can only trace to the last legal sale where records were required to be kept. As JohnKSa pointed out.
Next point, ALL guns come from manufactures. SOMEBODY makes them. And the law covers that. Licenses are required, fees paid, and regulations obeyed and if the maker is not doing that its already a CRIME, and has been for much, much longer than we have been alive.
Even so called "ghost guns" are already covered under long existing law.
So. since nearly all gun come from a licensed manufacturer (where records are required and kept, ) nearly all guns will "trace back" to the manufacturer.
And, since nearly all guns are distributed and originally sold through licensed dealers (who are also legally required to keep records) since 1968, they trace back to the dealer who originally sold them. SO stating how the guns they trace, track back to a dealer or manufacturer is like saying the earth orbits the sun. Its simply the way the world is and means nothing more than that. But the people doing the "studies" and spouting those statistics WANT us to think it does.
Next point, "crime guns". what is that, exactly? We assume it means a gun that was used in a crime, but in reality, it is more than just that, it is also guns recovered at a crime scene, and guns in the hands of prohibited persons which were never used in any crime, other than the illegal possession by a prohibited person.
These all get traced (or attempted to be traced) and that distorts the number because we are led to believe they are tracing guns used in actual crimes of violence, (shootings, or robberies where no one was shot, or shot at, etc.) when the reality is they are tracing a lot more than just those.
Ever see any studies or statistics about how a gun trace led back to the criminal who broke the law with a gun?? I don't recall any.
The only way a trace leads back to the criminal is if the legal purchaser committed used the gun in a crime. This does happen. And, when it does, the press makes a huge deal of how the "criminal got the gun legally".
What they always seem to fail to point out is that, when the gun was legally purchased the buyer WAS NOT a criminal. IF they were not criminals (convicted and prohibited from possession of firearms) then they are law abiding citizens at the time of purchase, with the same rights as all law abiding citizens.
another point to consider, actual prohibited persons who are illegally possessing a gun are not required by law to register it. They are committing a crime just by having it, so requiring them to register it (so it would trace back to them) is a violation of their 5th amendment rights.
When caught they can be charged with illegal possession, but not with failure to register it. Without some kind of paper trail the gun will NEVER trace back to the unlawful owner, and the law prohibits that, it being a violation of the criminals civil rights.
There's a lot more to it, of course, but the entire thing is a can of worms, intentionally tied in complex knots in a sauce of lies and distortions.
Do not think it happened by accident. It didn't.