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Posted on 05/03/2008 12:54:42 AM PDT by neverdem
| Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers |
| Friday, May 02, 2008 |
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This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners. Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days. Current law requires federally-licensed firearm dealers to conduct a background check on a prospective buyer using NICS prior to selling a firearm. NICS creates an audit log of the purchase during the course of the search. Under current Justice Department regulations, those records must be destroyed within 24 hours to preserve the lawful purchaser’s privacy. The Clinton Administration originally proposed keeping these records for as long as 180 days. NRA successfully fought to reduce this time period to 24 hours. Lautenberg’s legislation would undo this regulation. Once again trying to create a link where none exists, Lautenberg opined, “We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.” This latest anti-gun scheme should further remind gun owners of the importance of this year’s elections. S. 2935 demonstrates that threats to our Second Amendment rights remain very much alive. Sen. Lautenberg has a long and well-documented anti-gun record, and in sponsoring legislation that is a gross invasion of law-abiding gun owners’ privacy, his intentions are clearly aimed at further restriction of those rights. For voter registration information for the 2008 elections, please visit: www.nraila.org/vote2008. |
It’s just another attempt to incrementally take away another of our freedoms.
It’s for the children
The PROTECT (Preserving Records of Terrorist and Criminal Transactions) Act.
http://lautenberg.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=296871
http://www.bradycampaign.org/media/release.php?release=977
“We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.”
Oh yes. It’s common knowledge that all terrorists obtain their weapons lawfully with a comprehensive audit trail.
We’ll be able to track them better now.
Just say no! No you cannot have my firearms and be willing to stand your grfound. There will be no victory if you’re afraid of the battle.
Great Campaign strategy by the Dems...pulling their idiot anti gun crap when both the D candidates have been id’d as gun grabbers!
The NICS system could easily be combined with NFR (National Firearms Registry) almost over night. First they need to expand the storage capacity from 24 hours to 180 days to permanent. Then they need to collect the data on both the transferee and firearm on any firearm leaving the FFLs premises (sales, pawn, consignment and repairs). Then they need to subject all firearm transfers, including those between individuals, to the NICS check. Then make the possession of firearms subject to the NICS check. Then change the name from NICS to NFR and there you have it; in place and ready for the next step.
Liberal idiots think that anyone (except their bodyguards) having a gun is a crime.
The NRA does great work but is sometimes deaf to political philosophy. They support candidates on gun rights alone, which ended up as supporting Howard Dean in VT because of the gun laws in that state. The NRA should never support any, ANY, Democrat because that support turns into party politics, which produces bills like this.
/rant
The second amendment was never about anything but restraining the tyrants who inevitably arise in any form of government.
Another attempt by the Liberal wingnut DhimmiRats to circumvent the language and intent of the Second Amendment.
Time to write the congress critters, again...and, again...and, again.
These folks need to wake up to the reality that the criminal types don’t give a whip about this garbage. This type of legislation serves only to put additional, illegal, needless constraints on the law abiding folks in the US.
It’s all in the tagline...
The NRA supports pro-gun dems so we wouldn’t have bills like this.
By supporting pro-gun candidates in both parties, gun control will no longer be an issue and it will eliminate the Them Vs. Us games.
I know a number of pro gun Democrats and that's not the problem. It's the leadership Democrats have that leads their party. Newly elected Democrats cannot overcome their leadership, IMHO.
Likewise, gun issues need to be another of the many litmus tests we use with Republican candidates. Too often, in the past, we have accepted a Republican candidate and overlooked some of their core values and beliefs. Not just with guns but on a host of issues. I could support a Republican who is wrong on gun issues as long as he is right on the others. Likewise, I won't support a Democrat who is right on guns alone since he would follow the socialistic group think of the Democrat Party.
I can't believe these nitwits are abandoning their 2006 election strategy, i.e. shut up about gun control and act like they like the RKBA. IIRC, it was part of Schumer's strategy in recruiting Webb and Tester to take back the Senate! Ditto with Rahm Emanuel and his recruiting plan to take back the House then. Now Schumer is cosponsoring this? I can't imagine what they are thinking now. Maybe they're drunk with power? Maybe because with either BHO or Billary, they think they got nothing to lose?
If the GOP plays its cards right, they can take back Congress, IMHO.
I agree. Pro gun democrats are still democrats, who keep the democrat party in the majority, who set the agenda, which leads to anti-gun crap like this.
I agree, and I agree with your sig line. I’ve said for years that gun controls should always and only apply to Democrats. Democrats should never be allowed to own a gun of any kind. Gun owners must be responsible for their actions, and that’s a foreign concept to Democrats.
I know a number of pro gun Democrats and that's not the problem. It's the leadership Democrats have that leads their party. Newly elected Democrats cannot overcome their leadership, IMHO.
IMHO, the GOP doesn't want better Republicans. They are quite happy with RINOs. If they wanted conservatives, they would close their primaries. RKBA donkeys got rid of a lot of our RINOs in 2006, e.g. DeWine, Chafee, etc. So, in a perverse sort of way, the NRA is doing what the RNC refuses to do, i.e. purge our ranks of Rockefeller liberals.
It's weird, but conservatives only seem to win when the liberals overreach, e.g. 1994. That's when they pick up libertarian voters. In 2006 when the GOP directed their appeal to social conservatives, e.g. the ban on online gambling, the libertarian vote was lost. The Libertarian vote was the margin of victory for Webb in Virginia and Tester in Montana, IIRC.
So, I'm happy as a pig in slop with this blunder by the donkeys. In the Senate they propose crap like this to supposedly protect us from terrorists, but in the House they won't renew the legislation to spy on terrorists. We have two stupid parties. The GOP IS NOT ALONE.
I agree, and that’s why I tell friends to not leave the
Republican party but to actively work from within it, taking it back for all of us.
The only way the Republican Party will move more to the right is if enough conservatives win over or over power the liberal wing of our party.
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