Originally Posted By: salesrep
“We should be focusing on violent criminals and that has not been the Obama Justice Department’s priority. In 2010, there were over 15,000 felons and fugitives who tried to illegally purchase firearms. Of those 15,000, the Obama Justice Department prosecuted just 44. Let me repeat those numbers because those numbers are staggering, 15,000, they only prosecuted 44.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex.,
Federal data show that in 2010, people lied on federal forms and failed background checks more than 76,000 times. Only 44 of those people were prosecuted, because law enforcement officials say it's a low-priority crime. Proving that someone intended to lie on a federal form is often difficult, they say, and sentences are usually light.
Alysa Chang
But less bureaucracy means less background enforcement and less follow-up to crime. Or are you implying gut everything else and hire more law enforcement (police state), which negates the need for the population to have so many guns to self-protect.
Funny that you're concerned about 76000 improper buys when double that many guns are stolen each year from negligent owners who bought legally. Yet I'm sure that any enforcement to make theft harder would be bureaucracy that is unneeded, right?