You combine your post with the sheer number of FFLs storefront and small time home based with the lack of standardization of practices safe guards and an active governmental role in helping educating and enforcing good practices you get lots of stolen/missing/unreported/undocumented ghost guns.
A good way for the government to help is thru encouraging best practices. Its a shame to be honest how slack some sellers are ill be honest. By that i mean they do the background checks on guns sold but because of poor inventory controls and a total lack of adopting an advancements in retail from the past 20 years its surprising there aren't more "lost/stolen" guns from dealers not reported.
The ability to backwards look at gun crime data to discover place of purchase and lets say top 5% of sellers of guns used in crimes regionally get extra scrutiny. Sort of like how medicaid targets potential provider fraud. Investigate if not hing is wrong with process or illegal increase police presence around this shop and run education campaign on straw purchasing and go after the straw buyers. If shop is doing illegal stuff shut it down if shop is not doing illegal stuff but not following best practices then force them to correct practices or shut them down.
This thread points out a glaring problem in the FFL system and i am sure the legit FFLs would like the rift raff removed from the system. nothing worse than being a legit businessman and watching the cheat down the street break all the rules and almost push you out of business.
I can see a need to ensure the ATF does not become overly burdensome but there should not also be an arbitrary hard limit if evidence of abuse is found.
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