The Low-Tech Way Guns Get Traced (spoiler: it's by hand)

[DirkGently]

2. A national database is the next most common-sense

gun safety reform past uniform background checks. A lot of the "Fast & Furious" nonsense could have been avoided entirely if 1) there were reasonable limits on multiple simultaneous firearm purchases and 2) purchases could be tracked by computer.

The NRA's go-to fallacy for opposing registration is that it's only to "tax 'em or take 'em." It's part of the gubment conspiracy gospel, and the reason, as is becoming painfully clear, is that illegal gun sales are part of what the NRA's gun manufacturing sponsors want to protect.