What is the worry in this group with universal background checks for private sales?

[benEzra]

44. The fact that the same people pushing it are pushing bans/confiscation of the most popular guns,

and typically structure their UBC proposals to emphasize registration of all transfers to enable selective confiscation, rather than merely background checking.

I am on record here as a long-time supporter of UBC's, but I changed my mind after the gun control lobby changed their emphasis from "let's keep guns out of the hands of criminals" to "let's ban as many guns as possible from as many peaceable citizens as possible". In that environment, UBC's are a whole lot more controversial than they otherwise would be.

The irony is, had the prohibition lobby not gotten derailed on the "assault weapon" fraud in the '90s, the NRA likely would have signed onto a non-registry national UBC system, but the Joyce Foundation and the media shot that possibility dead.