[kris]

Originally Posted by Taters190

Here's what the government should do. They should be able to pull your background check if you want to buy a gun. And if you have a history of violent crimes then you shouldn't be able to buy one. Now, I don't own a gun, so I don't know if they do that already. I think if you have no history of violent crimes you should be able to buy as many guns as you want. If you take that away from the common man then that's not American

Background checks are the law. Certain types of crimes prevent you from purchasing a firearm, not sure which ones specifically. Felonies you're SOL, mental illness, domestic violence, you're out.

However, there is no way to prevent this in a private firearms transaction.