Sens. Toomey and Manchin Reach Deal on Expanding Background Checks

Town Hall ^ | Apr. 10, 2013 | Leah Barkoukis

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Last I checked, aren’t you already required to send a firearm to an FFL if it’s purchased over the internet and you’re mailing it to someone?

That is required *unless* the buyer and seller physically meet in person to conduct the transaction, which is in the eyes of the gun grabbers a huge "loophole".

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“Under the terms of the Manchin-Toomey deal all background checks would be conducted by federally licensed gun firearm dealers, who would need to verify the validity of a purchaser’s gun license and record that a check was performed.

"Purchaser's gun license???!!!???!!! WTF!

No one in Texas needs a license to purchase, only those in dark and fascist states like NJ, NY and IL.

Oh, and last I read the FFL's fee for doing the background check is to be determined by the Attorney General - who has no limit on what that fee may be. So if he makes the fee $1,000 or $10,000, that would effectively stop all transfers.

Phuk these guys and the horse they rode in on! I hope that several states pass laws specifically exempting guns made and sold within the state to be exempt from this "law" should the abomination pass. I also hope that the American People give the fed.gov the finger on this one, just like their great grandparents did on Prohibition and their parents on the issue of the 55 MPH limit and recreational drugs. This is NONE of the fed.gov's business.

I might ask when we can expect a similar background check for prayer books and newspapers. EVERYONE knows that ideas and the written word a far more powerful weapons than mere firearms.

[Ancesthntr]

Here’s what I sent this tool:

“Senator, I respectfully request and strongly advise you to drop your cooperation with Senators Manchin and Schumer on this issue, and to oppose their unconstitutional efforts to register firearms and to make the exercise of a RIGHT dependent upon obtaining a government permit. What is next, registration for prayer books? Permits to belong to a church or to subscribe to a newspaper?

The proposed law requires some sort of license to purchase a firearm - how is that NOT a severe infringement on the right of all citizens in states that don’t have any such license at this point? How is something that requires a license possibly to be considered a right - let alone one that supposedly ISN’T being infringed upon?

If you fail to support the rights guaranteed to ALL CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY by the Constitution, as you swore to do in your oath of office, by changing your position on this issue, I promise you that I will oppose your re-election with all resources at my disposal. You will face a primary fight, and if you somehow succeed in that then you’ll face a general election fight. One way or the other, you will not be Pennsylvania’s Senator after this term...unless you honor your oath and respect our rights. The choice is YOURS.”