[Centurion2000]

...the National Rifle Association has begun negotiations with senior Democrats over legislation to bolster the national background-check system and potentially block gun purchases by the mentally ill.

This is stupid .... more laws are NOT going to stop people like this.

[The KG9 Kid]

NRA supported 'Instant-Check' over the Brady Bill's waiting period. The system might have worked to prevent the VT killer from getting his guns via FFL transfer if it weren't for HIPAA and it's nutjob-to-doctor medical confidentiality policy from the HHS.

Seems to me that this is a Democrat policy contradiction: They demanded (and got) the Brady Bill which would supposedly prevent mental nutcases from lawfully acquiring firearms, then two years later they sealed the HHS medical confidentiality rules under HIPAA so tightly that they wailed like an alley cat when the Patriot Act permitted the government to open a person's medical records in the interests of 'National Security'.

They can't have it both ways, damn it.

Let the Democrats go in front of their voter base and say that they're relaxing HIPAA's vault-like medical confidentiality rules to allow FBI background checks on handgun transfers.

[GnL]

The NRA must balance its desire to respond to the worst mass shooting by a lone gunman

BS. They shouldn't be balancing anything. They should be telling the liberals to go pound sand. Why is it that the NRA is always the one to compromise? Why don't the libs ever compromise and repeal idiotic gun laws already in existence that don't work? I don't pay the NRA money to kiss the ass of Chuckie Schumer or Carolyn McCarthy. I pay them to hit them over the head with a hammer (in a manner of speaking).

[Firefigher NC]

Just emailed the NRA to let them know that I remember this kind of stuff when time comes ‘round to renewing my membership.