"Sure," I said, "but what else do I need to bring?"
I was thinking paperwork - perhaps to verify my clean criminal record, my relative sanity, the lack of any documented connections between myself and al-Qaida.
Did a search on Vitello's columns on Newsday. Turns out he wrote a column in 1994 that mentioned the Brady Bill. He friggin' knows about the background check - but he pretends here that it doesn't exist. So he's not just misinformed, he's a liar - and Newsday should sanction him for this lie, just as the Times went after Jayson Blair.