Posted on 02/15/2024 1:50:46 PM PST by RandFan
@RepThomasMassie
26 to 0!
The Judiciary committee passed my bill (HR 6824) requiring FBI to provide demographic data of persons ruled ineligible to purchase a firearm by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
False denials disproportionately affect racial and ethnic minorities.
"Research indicates NICS produces false denials for black males by a factor of 3-1 compared to white males."
So....every black & brown - legal or illegal - deserves a firearm?
I might have missed it, but did he define ‘False Denial?
No, everyone who is in the United States legally is protected by the Second Amendment.
Well, of course. That’s not where I was going. I think he’s complaining about investigated denials. Some folk don’t and should not qualify.
What’s a false denial and who decides it’s false?
nothing burger
With all the Sha’niquahs and De’Jeans, it be hard to find more you’niqueness in names. Just sayin’.
Notably, Second Amendment researcher and economist John Lott has claimed that as many as 99 percent of NICS denials are actually false positives — meaning the person denied is not actually a prohibited person.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Department of Justice tries to paint an entirely different picture, claiming that the FBI’s denial accuracy rate is between 99.3 and 99.8 percent — which, if true, would mean that almost no one is wrongly denied. Yet just about every week, GOA hears from its members and supporters who have been wrongly denied when attempting to purchase a firearm, and so the FBI’s claim seems suspect.
Indeed, documents recently received by Gun Owners of America (GOA) pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request show that the FBI’s own records undermine its claim to near-perfect accuracy.
“WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to....”
“...the right of the people to bear arms...”
So it would seem: if you can vote, you can carry.
Back in the old days, people on conviction often lost the right to vote and 18-year-olds didn’t normally get the right to vote. Non-citizens normally still don’t the rights to vote and bear arms.
“You may submit your request first to the agency that
conducted the check through the National Instant
Criminal Background Check System (NICS), i.e.,
either the state point of contact or the FBI. As an
alternative to appealing directly through the
processing agency, you may elect to submit your
appeal request to the FBI Criminal Justice
Information Services (CJIS) Division’s NICS Section.”
“The provisions for appeals are outlined in the
NICS Regulations at Title 28, Code of Federal
Regulations, Part 25.10, and Subsection 103 (f)
and (g) and Section 104 of the Brady Handgun
Violence Prevention Act of 1993.”
https://ucr.fbi.gov/nics/appeals/nics-guide-for-appealing
does the NICS background check include race ?
EVERY denial is a false denial. What is unclear about “shall not be infringed”?
If you can’t be trusted to be armed, you should not be running around loose.
Then they should not be running around loose!
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