"Guns don't kill people; people kill people."

[gejohnston]

5. that study was done before the current federal background checks

and I doubt they would fill out the federal form that has been around since the GCA was first passed.
I'm not saying they should be done away with. I agree with them in principle, I just know the limit. At best, they are speed bump for the stupid. In Europe, it is easier to get an illegal gun than a legal gun. If you can buy a bag of pot, meth, heroin, you can buy a gun. Doesn't matter where in the world you happen to be. Or, you can just make your own machine guns like biker gangs in Australia do. The bright side to that is Sydney can have a hundred drive by shootings without anyone getting hit.
Simple answers to complex problems are not solutions.
What I said was that current federal law should be vigorously enforced.
Holder and Lynch prosecuted fewer federal gun crimes than their predecessors, including felon in possession. Hopefully that is because there are fewer to prosecute. Although I voted for Obama twice, I'm not a fan of his AG picks.

As for having no regulation, I don't know of anyone, outside of a couple of Canadian anarchists on You Tube, buy into that idea. I do agree with criminologist Gary Kleck and civil rights lawyer Don Kates that the biggest obstacle to moderate licensing systems like Austria and the Czech Republic are the openly prohibitionists who will try to take a mile out of any inch.