Vendors on Armslist.com,founded in 2007 after Craigslist banned all gun-related posts, say executive actions are ‘well-meaning but ultimately ineffective’The founder of America’s largest peer-to-peer firearm sales website – known as the “Craigslist for guns” – has said that Barack Obama’s executive actions on gun control are “well-meaning but ultimately ineffective”.
Jonathan Gibbon, and the founder of Armslist.com,said in a statement to the Guardian that “many, whether not most, and private sellers want to do background checks”,but that the current system forces them to physically disappear to a licensed dealer and pay a fee to do the check. Gibbon said that he wanted to make Nics (the criminal record database) information more available to private citizens in order to “shed light on those who seek to function under the cover of darkness”.
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Source: theguardian.com