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No, my point is that private sales of firearms are not the same as commercial ones. The federal government regulates those, insofar as they involve interstate commerce. (They justify regulating private, interstate sales on the same grounds; whether they should is questionable, IMO, but they do.) There's no constitutional basis for the feds to regulate private, intrastate sales. Whether or not anyone thinks it's a good idea is irrelevant. It's already a crime to sell a firearm to someone you have reason to think is a prohibited person; many private sellers voluntarily go beyond that, by asking for ID, refusing to sell to anyone who doesn't have a carry permit, etc. That's great -- but mandatory federal background checks for face-to-face sales would be a violation of constitutional rights.
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