What year did BG checks start?

[Koda]

The part of all this stupidity that completely baffles me is how a BGC can have any effect once someone owns a firearm. I own multiple firearms. So how would running me through a BGC help stop me from shooting anyone including myself? Most of the guys I know own more firearms then they could carry at one time so how does making sure the new one is going to a NON unsafe person help anything.

The BCG was written to prevent prohibited persons from buying new guns. It was not written to prevent anyone from using a gun criminally.

 

[Alexx1401]

lol, as the comments above demonstrate it really matters what you mean; do you mean when BGCs first became mandated in law at all? Or when the current system came into effect? Or when private party transfers ended in your state, effectively mandating that all sales go through a BGC?

The implementation of BGCs has been incremental, and there have been a number of revisions to the system on both state and federal levels. Some states run their own systems that get updates that differ from federal level BGC laws and regulations, further complicating the history of how they might impact you specifically.

You are really going to have to specify what you mean to get a solid answer.

The one BIG "teaching moment" to all this is the time laps every time a new law went in. The "we are outnumbered" crowd who always suggest we give up always get angry when this is pointed out. The shocking number of gun owners who pay zero attention. A great example was when the Fed law changed that all firearm sales had to go with the so called "Insta check". That first Christmas many who worked at places that sold guns got a good taste of the anger when people who ignored it found out. They would go in to buy a new .22 rifle to put under the tree. "Thinking" they would just fill out the form and head home. Now they found out the dealer had to run a check and the system often would not give the OK and they would be turned away. They would then get over the top angry and start asking why "no one" stopped this.
Every new state or Fed law plays out like this. Often years later when gun owners finally find out some law now effects them and they get mad that no one stopped this. They of course could not be bothered to even vote.

 

[outwest]

I guess what I really want to find out is when the government started knowing which firearms I own.
Also I am now an Oregon resident. I need to edit my profile.

 

[nammac]

I guess what I really want to find out is when the government started knowing which firearms I own.
Also I am now an Oregon resident. I need to edit my profile.

If purchased from an FFL, ATF Form 4473 has been around since the enactment of the 1968 Gun Control Act. So those started then. Different states started bad guy checks at different times over the years for person to person sales.

 

[The Heretic]

If purchased from an FFL, ATF Form 4473 has been around since the enactment of the 1968 Gun Control Act. So those started then. Different states started bad guy checks at different times over the years for person to person sales.

But firearms purchased privately without the involvement of an FFL (before BGCs became mandatory for all transfers, or that were exempt {i.e., immediate family}) would probably not have a government record.

 

[Skully]

90s it was before 98 NICS was 98 but local PD had to do background check before that.

 

[quneur]

The Brady act was only for handguns. I believe some individual States enacted BCG for every firearm. I haven't heard of any federal laws which prevented the 'gun show loophole.'