Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers

NRA - ILA ^ | May 02, 2008 | NA

[neverdem]

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Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers

Friday, May 02, 2008

This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.

Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days.  Current law requires federally-licensed firearm dealers to conduct a background check on a prospective buyer using NICS prior to selling a firearm.  NICS creates an audit log of the purchase during the course of the search.  Under current Justice Department regulations, those records must be destroyed within 24 hours to preserve the lawful purchaser’s privacy.  The Clinton Administration originally proposed keeping these records for as long as 180 days.  NRA successfully fought to reduce this time period to 24 hours.  Lautenberg’s legislation would undo this regulation. 

Once again trying to create a link where none exists, Lautenberg opined, “We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.” 

This latest anti-gun scheme should further remind gun owners of the importance of this year’s elections.  S. 2935 demonstrates that threats to our Second Amendment rights remain very much alive.  Sen. Lautenberg has a long and well-documented anti-gun record, and in sponsoring legislation that is a gross invasion of law-abiding gun owners’ privacy, his intentions are clearly aimed at further restriction of those rights. For voter registration information for the 2008 elections, please visit:  www.nraila.org/vote2008.

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[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

In the interest of equal time, the publishing of this database makes it simple to publish a list of gun NON-buyers....

...which will include a lot of criminals, and those the criminals want to safely rob.

Buy a gun and stay on the legal buyer list! ;^)

[wastedyears]

Great, my Congresscritter sponsored it.

[neverdem]

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[El Gato]

The Clinton Administration originally proposed keeping these records for as long as 180 days. NRA successfully fought to reduce this time period to 24 hours. Lautenberg’s legislation would undo this regulation.

Once again trying to create a link where none exists, Lautenberg opined, “We must overturn the ill-conceived law mandating destruction of this data so we can successfully combat gun violence and terrorism in America.”

Even Lautenberg admits that the law requires the records to be destroyed after the transfer is approved. He no doubt voted for the Brady Bill which is the law that requires the NICS check and destruction of the record. The Clinton administration was in violation of the law by NOT destroying the records immediately. But then again the Clinton's have always been above the law.

[El Gato]

First they need to expand the storage capacity from 24 hours to 180 days to permanent.

Even now it's probably permanent. Just depends whether the computers are backed up before or after the records are "destroyed". At 180 days there would be multiple full backups, along with the incremental ones which would catch the transactions the day they occurred.

[El Gato]

If the GOP plays its cards right, they can take back Congress, IMHO.

I tend to disagree, at least as far as this bill goes at least. Most folks could care less if gun owners are registered. Even many gun owners. As long as they get to keep their bird gun or fancy trap/skeet piece, they are happy.

Of course that bird gun can be converted to an assault shotgun with a little hacksaw work, something the graboids will "discover" as soon they grab most everything else.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Darren McCarty]

I won’t be voting for Mr. Levin this fall. I never voted for him in the first place.

[ExSoldier]

Now let's see which of our senatorial Presential candidates return to cast a vote on this and see how they vote in order to keep as much of the elctorate sheeple in their respective corners as possible. LOL That would be a mighty interesting tap dance!

[neverdem]

I tend to disagree, at least as far as this bill goes at least. Most folks could care less if gun owners are registered. Even many gun owners. As long as they get to keep their bird gun or fancy trap/skeet piece, they are happy.

I'm not talking about the Zumbos. I'm talking about single issue RKBA voters who are as sick of the incompetent pubbies as they are sick of the marxists. They had no reason to vote in 2006 unless they had a local reason because the marxists ran RKBA donkeys for both Houses of Congress. The marxists finally bought a clue. We lost the Congress.

A similar reasoning applies to the loss of votes from small 'l' libertarians and votes for Libertarians seeking office, i.e. in 2006 donkeys didn't threaten the RKBA. IIRC, the number of votes for the Libertarian nominees for the Senate in Montana and Virginia exceeded the margins that Tester beat Burns and Webb beat Allen, respectively.