Posted on 09/06/2019 12:17:12 PM PDT by GIdget2004
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he's "willing to take an arrow" and defy the National Rifle Association by pressing Texas to close one loophole in gun-purchaser background checks.
On Friday, Patrick said it's "common sense" to tighten background-check laws because in many instances, stranger-to-stranger sales now are exempt from the requirement that buyers be vetted through a federal database of people not eligible to purchase firearms.
Patrick wants to protect transfers among family members from triggering a check. He'd also continue to exempt friends, though he acknowledged that could be abused. Patrick, who presides over the Texas Senate, said he's willing to accede to the preferences of senators on whether to maintain that loophole -- and if so, exactly how.
But he said Texas must strongly discourage selling guns to strangers without a background check.
"That gap of stranger to stranger we have to close, in my view," Patrick, a staunchly conservative Republican and avid gun-rights advocate, said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News.
"When I talk to gun owners, NRA members and voters, people don't understand why we allow strangers to sell guns to total strangers when they have no idea if the person they're selling the gun to could be a felon, could be someone who's getting a gun to go commit a crime or could be a potential mass shooter or someone who has serious mental issues."
"Look, I'm a solid NRA guy," he said, "but not expanding the background check to eliminate the stranger to stranger sale makes no sense to me and ... most folks."
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Bad news.
Caving to the media narrative.
I don’t know that I would sell a gun to a stranger without doing a background check.
Too many screwballs out there.
This smells like Fake News to me.
The Dallas Morning News is agitating again.
And just like that, societal trust plummets.
Boy, the devil sure is effective. Lot of weak minds it seems
A big problem here is that the NRA has lost credibility because of its poor financial control.
Like a bunch of businesses are. “WE DID SOMETHING!”. To no one but the bad guys benefit.
Personally, I wish they’d implement (if I remember correctly) BIDS.
Blind Instant Check System.
Anyone, not just FFLs, could call in a background check.
I think David Codrea suggested this a few years ago.
Oh, and dan, see alec balldwuns wishes.
Gasoline? Matches? Baseball bats? Autos?
I'd add: with no specific gun type tied to the check. The only reason for that is a registry the government is not supposed to have.
All the hand-wringing on a gun registry, but Heaven forfend we ask for ID at a voting booth.
Of course, Lt. Dan here is no genius, so he couldn’t make that sort of equivalency in the media.
I put a link on the thread.
Was going from memory and got some details wrong.
a federal database.. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Save some taxpayer dough. Just borrow the Google and FussBook and Instagram DBs.
Oh wait.. They’re almost the same anyway or likely would be.
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