Essay On Gun Dealers
Thesis: American government should pass on laws to improve the background check system, fill the gun show loophole, and proceed more enforcement to gun dealers because they are main contributors to gun violence in the country.
Concession: Although a lot of deaths in America related to firearms, many people believe that the government should not be harder on gun control. People argue that it is unreasonable and unnecessary to put effort on regulating gun shows because criminals rarely buy guns there. A study of Justice Department in 2001 found that only 0.7 percent state and federal prisoners bought their weapons at gun shows (cite); Only four percent of total illegal gun purchases is conducted at gun shows (cite). Instead, gun enthusiast need …show more content…
Gun dealers plays an important roles in gun control because they are persons who directly conduct background checks for buyers and make sales. They are alse allowed to purchase unlimited, high-capacity guns, without going through any more background check or waiting period. However, the current system on inspecting and enforcing gun dealers is insufficient. Dealers are inspected by the government once in a decade, and gun dealers’ serious violations of firearms laws are mostly classified as misdemeanors rather than felonies (cite). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rarely revokes law-violating dealers (cite). In 2011, ATF took administrative action against 4,056 FFLs, but only revoked or denied the renewal of 71 licenses (cite). Consequently, once dealers have their license, they can easily become unscrupulous, start making profit through illegal sales. Indeed, 34 percent of trafficking incidences connected to gun shows involved licensed dealers that conducted straw sales, sold guns without a background check (cite). Gun dealers is an important party whose responsibility is to ensure gun control, therefore, if the government fails to enforce them, the whole gun control system will never be effective. Besides the corruption of federal licensed dealers, the gun show loophole is playing an important roles in gun trafficking and gun
Concession: Although a lot of deaths in America related to firearms, many people believe that the government should not be harder on gun control. People argue that it is unreasonable and unnecessary to put effort on regulating gun shows because criminals rarely buy guns there. A study of Justice Department in 2001 found that only 0.7 percent state and federal prisoners bought their weapons at gun shows (cite); Only four percent of total illegal gun purchases is conducted at gun shows (cite). Instead, gun enthusiast need …show more content…
Gun dealers plays an important roles in gun control because they are persons who directly conduct background checks for buyers and make sales. They are alse allowed to purchase unlimited, high-capacity guns, without going through any more background check or waiting period. However, the current system on inspecting and enforcing gun dealers is insufficient. Dealers are inspected by the government once in a decade, and gun dealers’ serious violations of firearms laws are mostly classified as misdemeanors rather than felonies (cite). The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rarely revokes law-violating dealers (cite). In 2011, ATF took administrative action against 4,056 FFLs, but only revoked or denied the renewal of 71 licenses (cite). Consequently, once dealers have their license, they can easily become unscrupulous, start making profit through illegal sales. Indeed, 34 percent of trafficking incidences connected to gun shows involved licensed dealers that conducted straw sales, sold guns without a background check (cite). Gun dealers is an important party whose responsibility is to ensure gun control, therefore, if the government fails to enforce them, the whole gun control system will never be effective. Besides the corruption of federal licensed dealers, the gun show loophole is playing an important roles in gun trafficking and gun