Google is dead to me

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Imagine the uproar.

Dude shoots up a shopping mall. Turns out he was mentally ill, wasn't supposed to be able to get a gun. How did he get one? Oh, he just bought it online. He bought it online?!

Guns are one of those things that simply must have in-person oversight, IMHO. A real person to look you up and down, make sure you at least superficially appear to be who you say you are, make sure that you are not the same dude who came in a week ago pretending to be someone else.

You can't actually buy a gun online. The shopping results direct you to a store that sells the gun. If you want to buy it from them, they ship it to a licensed dealer near you and you go through all the rigmarole there.