A question about gun control

Hello all. Before I begin I want it to be clear that I want to keep this subject narrow. Not a big long open discussion on gun control. Simply the core of this particular matter.

#1 It is illegal for felons to even attempt to purchase firearms under federal law correct?

#2 Are FFL's required to report felons attempting to purchase guns from them?

#3 If not why don't we? Healthcare workers are required to report crimes.

It seems to me these two things are everything we need to prevent felons from buying guns through FFL's. Not much we can about black market as it opperates outside the law anyway, but not one of these things is overly invasive IMO.

Thoughts?

Again we have enough talk about gun control. I am specifically wanting to discuss the above. How they work. How they should work, and if they don't why. Because these two simple things seem like they should be very effective. Of course straw sales are a judgement call of the individual FFL handling the transaction and we can't really change how someone does business. If they choose to ignore an obvious straw sale and no one is there to witness the deed not much can be done. Thus straw sales are a seperate problem.

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