Posted on 10/27/2015 8:03:18 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases, saying opinion polls consistently show that most Americans support such restrictions.
The proliferation of firearms is one of the factors behind a rise in homicide rates in many U.S. cities this year, according to senior law enforcement officials at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. …
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Why not just stop all gangbanger gun transactions?
Which mass shootings would background checks have stopped?
Okay, then you can drop all the interstate purchase restrictions.
If we have universal background checks, then there is no reason for me to have to through FFL holders to buy a handgun in another state.
I can just make the legal purchase and take it home with me.
Where do they take those polls?
DNC headquarters, teachers union meetings and liberal colleges?
http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/26/pew-gun-deaths-are-down-30-since-1993/
Pew: Gun deaths are down 30% since 1993
Chiefs are political hacks with no idea what is really going on in their towns. Real, effective officers rarely rise above the rank of Lieutenant.
How about background checks for those who use them in the commission of a crime, with no option to have possession used as va bargaining chip in pleading down? Huh?
Bet you these 'chiefs' will all be leftwing hacks.
The only name you named, is an out-of-control communist loon who had to be subdued by cops because he was drunk and out of control during a traffic stop, and still has a Police Chief job: "This is a no-brainer, this is the simplest thing in the world," Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy said. "It troubles me all the time."
Unlike elected sheriffs, police chiefs hail from cities, which is where most crime takes place.
We need yearly psychological, physical fitness and firearms proficiency testing for all cops.
Elected Sheriffs across the country do not agree with unelected police chiefs on back ground checks for every legal gun purchase.
IACP is a bunch of company line Political Dipshit Chiefs.
They do not represent the rank and file
Since these chiefs know that criminals do not get their guns from gun shops this is their means to support disarming We the People.
Traitors. We’ll remember this.
My county Sheriff, who is a bluedog democrat, who is ‘in charge’ of all CCW... sent out a letter a while back saying he would resist any federal gun laws that encroached on his jurisdiction. He also said he will NOT give out names and addresses of CCW holders back when that was an issue.
He is the only democrat I ever voted for for that reason.
...and because he’s family.
...and because he lets me hunt fowl on his land.
Let's start with the police chiefs.
What, and, incarcerate Obummer voters, or, those who round up ObOzO voters?
I believe in CHOICE...
Very Late Post birth “ABORTION”
for UNWANTED career THUGS.
Dishonest and misleading headline implies that EVERY Police Chief across the USA called for this.
In reality it was a hand-selected group of Obama sychophant chiefs.
Trump is right. The media really ARE horrible people.
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