FROM CATO: The Costs And Consequences of Gun Control. “Although universal background checks may sound appealing, the private sale of guns between strangers is a small percentage of overall gun sales. Worse, the background check bills are written so broadly that they would turn most gun owners into criminals for innocent acts — such as letting one’s sister borrow a gun for an afternoon of target shooting.”

That impact is, I suspect, not unintentional. Though it would, as usual, result in more minorities in jail. Why do the Democrats want to expand the mass incarceration of minority citizens?