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has been a longtime defender of gun rights (Imagine, an attorney general upholding the constitution.)

Don't be fooled by Ashcroft's present policy statements.
#1. Ashcroft basically told the congress that he could not violate present brady law.
2. He then intimated that "if" the law was changed, he would then be able to invade peoples privacy.
3. Senators then present a bill in "responce" to the A.G.s' comments.
I think it's called "hagaillian" politics, or something like that. a. create a problem. b. introduce the desired solution. b(1) the ends justify the means.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
As governor of Missouri, Ashcroft vetoed Concealed Carry Legislation on more than one ocassion.
Do NOT be fooled by his political posturing.
He Wanted the Power to circumvent brady law restrictions on using NICS records to investigate "trouble makers."
He now may very well get it.

Without EXPLICIT provisions limiting NICS checks to non-citizen suspect terrorists, and provisions limiting the time this exception will be allowed, and a Fully Explicit Termination condition, this legislation will be ABUSED by the A.G. office, Justice dept., and government in general.

What galls me is that Leahy was more concerned with the "civil" rights of illegal immigrants, who have already broken the law just by being here, and who are suspected members of terrorist groups, than he is the CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS of American citizens! Note how Leahy sneers at "gun rights." In the meantime, Leahy wants to make sure the illegal Muslim immigrants get all of their rights and more than what Leahy thinks mere Americans should have. The 9/11 terrorists did not use ONE gun! How arrogant do these politicians have to get before Americans finally get angry?