[sammex]

I don't agree. Selling a gun to a hunter is not the same as selling a gun to a known child murderer. Both is "just" selling a gun but they are very different in practice.

[diegoholiveira]

You can't take responsibility for what someone will do with your product. This is insane. If someone buy your car, how can you make sure he will not use for kidnap someone?

[eli]

Of course you can. We just sell cigarettes it’s not our fault problem of people smoke them and get sick?

[Redoubts]

Yes you can, and this is why know-your-customer laws exist. This isnt black and white, and depends on the kind of transaction. But if I’m selling cars, and someone comes in looking shifty, and says they want a big SUV to mow people down with, then claiming “I’m just a merchant with no responsibility on end use” is honestly weak bullshit.

[zajio1am]

If seller offers guns to general public (e.g. gun shop) and child murderer does not have restriction on gun ownership as a part of their sentence, then not selling gun is not a political action, it is an extra-judicial punishment.

[hexis]

Yes, but this distinction doesn’t require a corporate policy to implement. One transaction is legal and the other is not.

[ozorOzora]

Would you like to mandate background checks for every potential customer?

[stevehawk]

ya, one would be illegal

[chii]

Does your view change if the gun was sold to a republican vs a democrat? Or a communist?