Posted on 08/17/2016 5:31:43 AM PDT by marktwain
In 2013, the Administration proposed a range of legislative remedies along with 23 executive actions to address mass shootings and reduce gun violence. The Justice Department is working to implement a number of these actions and requests a total of $1.1 billion in FY 2015 to address violent gun crimes, which includes $182.4 million to support the Presidents Now is the Time initiative. Of the total $1.1 billion, $1.0 billion in federal law enforcement resources allows the Department to ensure those who are not eligible to purchase or possess guns are prevented from doing so, and $147.0 million is to help state and local governments continue to implement the Administrations proposals for increasing firearms safety and supporting programs that help keep communities safe from mass casualty violence. In support of enhancing gun safety, the Department has been working to strengthen the national background check system. For example, in January 2014, the Department proposed a rule to clarify the definition of persons prohibited from receiving, possessing, shipping, or transporting firearms for mental health reasons. Additionally, the Department is working to strengthen national background checks by addressing gaps in the federal and state records currently available in NICS. Incomplete or insufficient records significantly hinder the ability of NICS to quickly confirm whether a prospective purchaser is prohibited from acquiring a firearm. In FY 2015, the Department requests a total of $55.0 million in grant funding to further assist states in making more records available in NICS and improving the National Criminal History Improvement Program, and an increase of $13.4 million for the FBI to maintain the substantial improvements made to NICS in FY 2014.No one is providing a cost to benefit ratio for this money. Most of it is simply wasted. The entire structure of GCA 1968 does little beneficial. There is no indication that it stops crime in any measurable amount. It is as likely to be detrimental as beneficial.
Out of 23,292 individuals diagnosed with severe mental illnesses or committed to a mental institution, federal law would have disqualified only 7 percent from purchasing a gun, the study found. The majority of those studied never committed a crime, and most of those who did already had criminal records.The costs of the NICS program is about 100 million dollars a year. That was estimated for 2014, when there were about 21 million checks done. From FBI.gov:
The final report concludes that the laws had a minimal impact on reducing gun violence.
Background checks to enforce the federal mental health prohibitions even if they are completely effective will have a very small impact on overall crime in persons with serious mental illness, according to the report. Most of those at risk are unaffected by the law.
For over a decade, the FBI has been responsible for determining a persons eligibility to possess a firearm at the point of purchase from a Federal Firearms Licensees. The number of checks has grown over 200 percent since NICS was implemented in 1998. Since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school on December 14, 2012, and subsequent discussions of potential changes in gun laws, the FBIs workload has skyrocketed. Before the shooting, the busiest week in NICS history was the week of December 3-9, 2012, when 527,095 firearms checks were initiated. The week following the shooting, December 17-23, 2012, NICS volumes approached one million transactions and continue to exceed historical peak volume. In fact, the first six full weeks in 2013 are among the top 10 busiest weeks in NICS history. Because of this increased workload, the FBI has required NICS personnel to cancel all leave, work mandatory overtime shifts, forego other critical tasks, such as appeals and audits, and has shifted personnel from other program areas to provide assistance. Without a permanent addition to personnel, facility space, and technology improvements, national security and public safety are at risk, as the current FBI staff will be unable to provide timely and accurate determination of a persons eligibility to possess firearms and/or explosives in accordance with federal law. Therefore, the FY 2014 budget requests 524 positions and $100 million to increase the ability to process mandated background checks for firearm purchases.
And I’m sure the bureaucrats got their cut also.
The correct budget for enforcement of federal gun laws would be $0.00.
“Shall not be infringed” is clear, simple, and the supreme law of the land. All federal gun laws, with one exception, infringe on that individual right, so all but one of our federal gun laws are unconstitutional. I would like to see them all repealed, with the only exception being the law banning frivolous lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
Sounds shaky
The sad thing is that there are a few Federal gun laws that,if rigorously enforced, would reduce substantially the most serious gun crimes. Those are the ones prohibiting felons from possessing firearms and the ones that prohibit juveniles from possessing hand guns without direct parental permission. In Chicago, for the worst example, thousands of guns are annually confiscated from illegal possessors, but those persons are almost never prosecuted; hence, the horrific, continuing carnage.
But it makes libtards feel good.
But it makes libtards feel good.
Yeah then they should piss their pants.
Try that azzhats!
Federal enforcement of gun laws, and more gun laws, not to mention even more forfeiture of citizens rights might be ineffective for reducing crime, but it sure makes some people feel a whole lot better for a while.
If the government spent 1 billion per year deporting illegal aliens and muslims known to have violent tendencies, I wonder what would happen to the gun crime statistics?
And then Obama pardons the perps.
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