Selling a Pistol

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... legal requirements are minimal, and you are tasked with being responsible, using good judgment or suffering consequences...

What part of my 2 sentence post disagreed with this?

"Following the letter of the law, no more, no less."

Here, you could follow the letter of the law, no more, no less, and sell a .40 cal pistol with 15 round magazine to a guy who goes out and uses it to assassinate a Deputy Sheriff.

I wish to avoid dreadful occurrences like that and do what I can to preclude them by being as sure as I can that I am not putting a firearm in the hands of a criminal or psychopath.

Then I would say don't complete any ftf transactions, only go thru a ffl because you will never truly know the background of the person. Following the letter of the law does not relive the seller of using common sense and acting as a "reasonable and prudent" person.

Agree with sass2924... with that viewpoint, you should probably stick to selling to friends and family... folks that you personally know and have known for a long time, but even that is no guarantee.

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No one makes a copy of my ID, unless I'm at a car dealer test driving or employer. Or buying decongestant at the pharmacy, or other good reason.

Agreed.

As I read further and further down this thread I realize that there are some _really_ nice log books of addresses with potential victims. If a robber breaks into a house with firearms and a nice log book, they now know exactly where to go to likely find more firearms. Just follow the log.

I will also put my name in the pile with the folks confused as to why we as generally pro 2A folks want to require paperwork that the government doesn't require. We are non-verbally acknowledging that there should be more restrictions required.