That would require a Federal Gun Registry that was adhered to, both by states enforcing it and gun vendors everywhere abiding by it. And it would require some agency to oversee it. I feel like we had one of those, something about booze smokes and guns? Where's Redking where you need him. He'd talk a lot about how the ATF has been systematically neutered over the last two decades, along with some high profile scandals, to the point it barely even exists beyond the first two letters.
There's so many barriers, political, logistical, legal, emotional.....to make such a thing in America happen it's something the entire country and the majority of politicians have to want. And we don't come anywhere near those numbers. The entire country needs to get on board with actual gun control so at least shit like what
this friggin guy is giving away for free isn't considered street legal. That background checks and waiting periods, at a minimum, are federal law for all gun sales.
And even then...who would have entered what info into what database in what time frame that some random vendor would actually check against? It's a pretty big chain of compliance to get to an updated registry that might prevent an unhinged person from buying a gun on a nationwide scale. Especially with the South where you can probably still get just about anything with cash in hand and very few questions asked. And even then, what is the actual legal basis for denying them a purchase? It's not like they're a felon (who can't legally own firearms most places.) Do they need a psychiatrist's note on file that they're suicidal? What if the cops haven't been involved and there's nothing to document? Just a lot of bad social media shit and lifestyle stuff that's never risen to the level of police attention?
It's not cut and dry and it's not simple, even though I wish it was. And even WITH all those measures and fail safes....some crazy fuck in this country is still going to go out in the worst way possible. That's where we at as a country now, a lot of little ticking time bombs. America now looks more like what people
feared it would look like after 9/11. Terror around every corner, a psycho wanting to do bad shit in every city, waiting for a target rich environment that will make a big scene. The difference is, they're not the Jihadi sleeper cells we made 2 decades of television out of. They're homegrown crazy lone wolves with ready access to enough firepower to scare the fuck out of the whole country, and the barely concealed support of our equally pyschotic Republican party. Seriously, that prick in the Twitter link above didn't even wait a couple hours before he basically told people on Facebook to move on and enjoy their 4th of July. When that's the attitude of basically our entire governing body (because all Democrats really do is ask for more money to get more Democrats elected so they can maybe one day do something this country needs without Republican support) to unhinged "individualist" white guys blasting up schools and parades for literally no reason, no wonder we're this fucked as a country. Say what you will about other gun crime, at least there's motivating factors there regular people can understand. Money, revenge, personal beef. The rest, the stuff that makes the headlines, is pure sadistic evil.