Re:Unlawful gun owners commit 80 percent of gun crimes
by jyounker on Monday August 01, 2016 @06:02PM
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Switzerland seems to have this one nailed. Both parties are required by law to have documentation of a firearm sale, and that documentation must be retained for ten years. If you don't have control of the weapon and you don't have documentation then you're in trouble. And I suspect you insurance won't cover any costs if you're in violation of the law.
You basically want to increase legal liabilities (which already exist) to an extreme, but you will then have trouble finding any insurance company that is willing to cover the kinds of damages that can be caused by guns at a rate affordable to an individual.
Either of these things will require legislation that will receive massive pushback from the gun lobby. In a country where even basic background checks or limiting of certain weapon types hasn't been realized, your ideas seem almost utopian.
Having said that, I don't disagree in principle.