Posted on 01/20/2013 8:01:47 AM PST by forty_years
As has been widely reported, an NRA representative recently met with an Obama administration-directed firearm task force led by longtime gun control supporter Vice-President Joe Biden. It came as no surprise that the meeting had little to do with keeping our children safe and much to do with an agenda to attack the Second Amendment. But you may be surprised to know one of the revelations that came out of the meeting.
Jim Baker, NRA-ILA's Director of Federal Affairs, represented NRA at the meeting. As detailed in a recent Daily Caller article, Mr. Baker was given five minutes to present NRA's concerns and the approach NRA saw as being the most effective way to safeguard our children. During those five minutes, Baker mentioned the need to vigorously prosecute existing gun laws. He further noted the low number of prosecutions for falsifying information on Form 4473s, and the low felony prosecution rate for gun crimes in general.
In response to Mr. Baker's comments, Vice-President Biden said, "And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don't have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately." That's right: Biden said the administration just doesn't have time to prosecute crimes (felonies punishable by up to a 10-year prison sentence) under existing laws, but is proposing a host of sweeping new laws.
According to federal statistics cited in the Daily Caller article, in 2010, prosecutors considered just 22 cases of information falsification, and 40 additional background-check cases ended up before prosecutors for reasons related to unlawful gun possession. Prosecutors pursued just 44 of those 62 cases, although more than 72,600 applications were denied on the basis of a background check. Overall, gun prosecutions per capita in 2011 were down 35 percent from the previous administration's peak in 2004.
"We think it is problematic when the administration takes lightly the prosecutions under existing gun laws and yet does not seem to have a problem promoting a whole host of other gun laws," said Baker. "If we are not going to enforce the laws that are on the books, it not only engenders disrespect for the law but it makes law-abiding gun owners wonder why we are going through this exercise we are going through now."
Commenting on the administration's inability to prosecute persons who lie to obtain a firearm, NRA-ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox said, "They don't have time to pursue people who are dangerous, who aren't supposed to get guns, and the message they have sent is literally 'Good luck, go get them elsewhere.' You can talk all you want," Cox continued, "but until there is a will to follow through, then it is literally just going to paper over the problem and guarantee that bad people continue to have access to firearms and good people will be blamed for it."
They don’t have time to chase down illegal aliens either. Just what the hell do they do all day?
Well then it certainly doesn’t have the time to enforce any of the other laws Biden is pressing for. Time to repeal a bunch of laws until there’s enough time to prosecute the remaining ones. May I suggest the Gun Control Act of 1968, as amended, and the National Firearms Act of 1934, as amended? That would be a good start, but there might be more if there still isn’t time to prosecute those, either.
Have you recently filled out the documents to purchase a gun?
I do not take those statements lightly and I despise the intimidation associated with them.
Gun running is hard work.
Well . . . if the Regime can’t handle the job . . . . .
Biden, Obama and dems are NOT interested in 'crime control' but in 'gun control'. They want to take guns away from lawfull citizens. Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago. Nope, they're after middle class guns. Guns honest people use for protection.
ALL the school shooters were democrats or their parents were democrats. Most were on psychoactive drugs. Over 96% of prison inmates are democrats. Chicago street gangs organized recently for democrats...
Biden is NOT going after criminals. Biden is going after us.
Biden, Obama and dems are NOT interested in 'crime control' but in 'gun control'. They want to take guns away from lawful citizens. Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago. Nope, they're after middle class guns. Guns honest people use for protection.
ALL the school shooters were democrats or their parents were democrats. Most were on psychoactive drugs. Over 96% of prison inmates are democrats. Chicago street gangs organized recently for democrats...
Biden is NOT going after criminals. Biden is going after us.
Background check records will provide one more place to do opposition research.
Candidate x said on his application he lived at 123 first street. In fact he lived at 124 first street.
Headline in democrat newspaper: CANDIDATE X LIED ON HIS GUN PERMIT APPLICATION!
During class photos in High Skrool they asked if you had any awards?
My brother wrote he was a member of the National Honor Society. On the Deans List. Class prisident, MENSA member, volunteered as a candy striper, etc etc.
Made himself to look like GODS gift to the world.
None of which was true at all but it all made it in the year book. NO ONE CHECKED
Oh, you know, beer summits, surfing internet porn, looking for other people’s reports to plagiarize, selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, there’s hardly enough time in the day!
Or the space on the form was so frickin small (and I believe they cracked down on that pernicious racket of abbreviating), the guy may have just done the best he could and the examiner’s interpretation of his scrawl is different from his actual address. That’s what passes for a “crime” these days.
Prince Humperdinck: [sincerely] Tyrone, you know how much I love watching you work, but I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder and Guilder to frame for it; I'm swamped.
Count Rugen: Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, then you haven't got anything.
LOLZ — we just watched that movie for the first time in years last night!
Are we absolutely sure these particular people were ever good in the first place?
My husband has said for years, the government wants a certain level of crime. How else can every police department in American have a SWAT team, with all the goodies .How else could they justify the Department of Education having a SWAT team. They have to have big unions, so they can pass money to them.If we had way less crime, we would need to have way less LEO. It so goes along with what you’re saying.
case in point:
“Murderous ‘monster’ acquires an arsenal”
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/187610601.html
I don’t get it. They have a host of laws that they don’t enforce and they still want more.
Enforce the old ones and you won’t need any new ones.
Eat the peas that are on your plate and you won’t be hungry for more.
Biden could just as well have said they don’t have time to prosecute all who are responsible for fraud in the government and have caused spending to go out of control.
Spending oodles of our money on worthless or fraudulent tasks is a big job. It takes lot of time. We understand, Joe.
I've been seeing this all over the net this weekend. I have searched for evidence of this and have not found it...can you give me sources? I would love to spread this info far and wide, but not if it's going to be debunked by "snopes."
Theres lots of golf courses theyve never been to.
Background checks starting at our White House!
Lack of proof in this case is proof. If they were conservative republicans or TEA party advocates it would have been front page news still.
We know. 0bama’s uncle and aunt have been here a while now. 0bama’s background is a cypher; costs money and time to keep it that way, though.
It is not brain surgery. Fingerprints, criminal records. They have all the data and it should be able to be done in a few minutes.
Just arrest high government people.
The only thing background checks do is make a gun purchase more expensive and time consuming for law abiding Americans. My sister in NJ, texted me yesterday and said that NICS background checks are taking 3-4 days. On a recent gun purchase I made in PA, it took 40 minutes to just to get through on the phone for a PICS background check. (PA doesn't do the national background check.)
The problem isn't law abiding citizens, it is criminals and liberals that seem to love to release them from jail without proper punishment that sets them straight so they will never, ever want to break the law again.
If you are telling us they aren’t going to check the checks, then why do we have them, Joe?
I’m sure it makes sense to him.
Biden says Administration Doesn’t Have Time to Prosecute People Who Lie on Background Checks
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They certainly had no time to prosecute our unqualified president who lied on his Birth Certificate and who has used at least 2 bogus social security numbers.
“Dems are NOT trying to take guns away from gang members - the type who slaughter the children of Chicago.”
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I grew up in a suburb of Chicago (Des Plaines) and still watch WGN on the superstation. Almost every night, there is someone killed by gang violence in Chicago, and even further out; as a child, I always thought it was normal. And that’s pretty sad.
Hey, if it's good enough for the president...
You’re right - it is sad. I pinged you to an article you might enjoy... Thanks for sharing...
There’s an illegal alien squatting at 1600 Penn ave. DC!
Joe Biden; the stuff that floats to the top after an unsuccessful flush..
They don’t seem to have the time or manpower to win the war on drugs either.
they figure out creative new ways to loot their taxpayers and yoke them up to debt slavery.
They start silly wars to kill off the patriots so they can replace them with dependent entitlement zombies,
they figure out ways to take away any means of defense against their soft tyranny
they are bizzy bizzy bizzy running guns in Benghazi and Mexico
they are bizzy pushing through diabolical scams like Obamacare to kill off the old people so they dont have to pay out social security or medicare
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