Maine Ballot Initiative Requires Background Check to Borrow Gun for Hunting

The Maine ballot initiative labeled Question 3 requires individuals to go through background checks before borrowing a gun from a friend for the purposes of hunting.

While this will not keep anyone safer, it will have the result of increasing the paper trail on guns and gun owners, thereby providing the government with yet another avenue by which they can search out guns that were purchased privately — off the books — rather than at retail. Breitbart News has long warned that the expansion of background checks is a tool that governments — whether state or federal — can use to find guns for which no paper trail currently exists. And Maine’s Question 3 is a perfect illustration of the validity of such warnings.

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