Lautenberg requires the impossible. A gun show promoter is somehow expected to be able to read the mind of every show attendee who intends to discuss selling a firearm. Since that's impossible, gun show promoters would have to check the identification of every show attendee, and would be required to keep massive records on gun owners. Lautenberg invades the privacy of honest citizens. It orders the federal government to retain for 90 days personal information about a law-abiding citizen who clears an instant check.
Current law demands that information be destroyed immediately.
Lautenberg authorizes a new, unlimited federal tax - letting the government charge whatever fee it likes to perform an instant background check. Lautenberg is not just about gun shows. If, as a private citizen, you display a firearm at a gun show, but make a sale months later to someone you met at the show, you would be subject to all the same requirements imposed on a sale that occurs at a show. None of these provisions have anything to do with school violence or violent crime of any kind. They would create an enormous maze of complex new federal regulations, designed to trap you and fellow gun owners in a snare of obscure restrictions for activities that have always been lawful and constitutionally protected.