RE: Why are there such laws?!
These laws exist to control you, not to protect you. They serve to discourage you from purchasing firearms, and more importantly, to add as much cost as possible to gun dealers, hopefully enough to drive them out of business. I am all for criminal background checks, but most of the gun laws enacted by the more liberal states do not target criminals, they only inconvenience honest gun owners and honest gun dealers.
Rant over...[&o]