> if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, they don't need the state as a counterparty. unless of course they don't legally own the gun, in which

> if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, they don't need the state as a counterparty. unless of course they don't legally own the gun, in which case the "fair market value" is zero. Or, Old widow has some rifles her dead husband left in her closet. She legally owns them, but she doesn't know that and she's afraid she might have done something wrong.