You'll get your background check done when I damn well please.
Posted on 12/09/2017 5:13:20 PM PST by Mafe
On Wednesday, the Republican controlled house voted to further federalize gun laws in this country. While Ryan McMaken has noted the danger in further centralizing gun legislation, there is another deeply troubling aspect to this bill: it expands the ability of the Federal government to restrict Americans’ right to bear arms.
During the legislative process, the NRA supported merging the bill aimed at nationalizing concealed carry permits with another piece of legislation aimed at “fixing” the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS.) Obviously this legislation was inspired by the failure of the US Air Force to report the criminal record of Devin Kelley, who went on to commit a horrific shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. While the motivation to do something after this atrocity is entirely natural, unfortunately this bill is simply another example of the Federal government using its own failure to justify expanding its own power.
If you haven’t recently strolled through any - ANY - federal bureaucrat office and seen the fat, low-IQ squishes squatting at their desks, eating jumbo bags of chips and gulping down half-gallon bottles of pop, you need to take a tour.
Then ask yourself this question: If I were a grunt officer, would I want to take these jellyfish onto a field of combat?
I have to say there is a real downside to concealed carry if it is authorized by law.
In my state, and if you have a concealed carry permit, any violations are a felony, where as for a non-permit holder, the same violations are a misdemeanor.
I would like to remind you that:
There is no situation so dire, so unpleasant, so untenable that the government can not make worse.
Although our present system of permit issue has some faults, much progress has been made in recent years and will continue to be made if we can keep the federal government out of it.
I’m pretty sure that it still would call for a national PERMIT. I have not read into what goes into getting the permit. My state is pretty easy. Fill out a form (name, convictions, etc.), get fingerprinted, then wait 30 days while they do the paperwork. The permit is good for five years. ($35 iirc).
If it is a permit that requires six weeks of training, $1 million insurance coverage, annual re-certification process, etc. -— well, it better not be.
(I suppose I COULD research the actual proposed wording. Maybe.)
I’m initially wary of any federal expansion..but if you can’t trust the NRA, we’re done.ha
Can we see a copy of your National Drivers License?
You'll get your background check done when I damn well please.
Fact: Any right you have to get a permit to exercise, isn’t a right you have.
Like so much in America, the Federal government has no right to restrict firearm ownership. What part of the 2nd Amendment do the Deep State permanent bureaucracy not understand?!
Federalizing ensures we all get equal application and respect for our Constitutional rights, which is not happening at state and local level. This is good. Can always amend late, get us this bill now, before Christmas!!!
If they ignore the RKBA as completely as they do ‘enumerated powers,’ might as well cut that amendment out of the Constitution.
Yeah, because the baker who won’t bake a fag wedding cake is getting the same constitutional rights as the fags.....
They understand the 2nd Amendment just fine. They don't care. They want to disarm you and enslave you ... Constitution be damned.
Agreed. Let the states work reciprocity amongst themselves.
Agreed. There will be plenty of unintended consequences to the national reciprocity bill. Like "may issue" states become "no issue" and the like. If it passes, I predict the Supreme Court will knock it down, 7-2 or even 9-0.
I've read the "Fix NICS" bill and do not see anything nefarious in it. Federal Agencies need to report their dregs like the States do.
Not obvious to me. This legislation has been in the works for a long time.
>>The government has no rights, period. Rights are inherent in the people. The government has powers, that are granted it by the people.<<
Exactly.
I favor the idea of a National Concealed Carry License, which people would obtain from the federal government. National Concealed Carry might have the same unintended consequences as this bill, but I don’t think a National CCL would. Think about it - it wouldn’t require states to recognize one another’s permits, and since your state wouldn’t be the one to give you the license, they couldn’t deny you it. The only downside to that would be that a liberal administration might deny people who apply for the license, which compared to a lot of things doesn’t sound that bad.
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