wants. that violates federal law. this is all slippery slope argument. they violate the law when they get it. you walk into a store and somebody says to you, i want to see an i.d. card to see if you re 21. is that all right with you? i don t have a problem with that. okay. so somebody walks into a store, in order to protect the store owner, so he doesn t sell to a criminal, he wants to know, a store owner, whether i m selling to a criminal or not. is it helpful to have him access to check to see if this person is a felon or not? what s wrong with that information? you know, if you stop there, he ll go somewhere else to get it or do what the gao did a number of years ago, he ll get a false i.d. i ve had you on, but there s something isdeological to this. if i m a good guy, do to church on sunday, or synagogue, i want to be a good person, i don t want to sell a gun to a nut, a criminal, a wife beater, somebody on a restraining order. how can i avoid doing that? if joe smith