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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
Imagine the uproar.
Dude shoots up a shopping mall. Turns out he was mentally ill, wasn't supposed to be able to get a gun. How did he get one? Oh, he just bought it online. He bought it online?!
Guns are one of those things that simply must have in-person oversight, IMHO. A real person to look you up and down, make sure you at least superficially appear to be who you say you are, make sure that you are not the same dude who came in a week ago pretending to be someone else.
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Online gun purchases do have in-person oversight. You can't buy a gun by mail anymore, thanks to Lee Harvey Oswald.
When you buy a gun online, you are paying money to the owner, who then takes the weapon to his friendly local gun dealer, who does the front half of the transfer paperwork and ships, via an approved carrier, to a gun store near you, where that gun store does the necessary background checks and paperwork, which involves much showing of ID.
They charge a LOT for the shipping and inter-state paperwork.