Originally Posted by kane

For a legal gun, yes.

However, if you weren't old enough or for some reason couldn't pass the background check then you can't. At the moment you could still buy it legally from a private party and in many states you could buy it at a gun show without a background check, but if those options were removed a person would be forced to buy one illegally.

I'm not advocating for banning all guns, I just think a lot of people act like it is easy to get an illegal gun when it is not.