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Minor infractions already are included in the federal database. If you have a misdemeanor conviction for domestic violence you are thereafter barred from owning firearms. I have a friend who lost his firearm rights on just such a charge. He came home and found his soon to be ex-wife drunk and in a foul mood. They commenced to arguing and at one point she went outside and started screaming. Unfortunately for him, he didn't want to make a scene in front of the neighbors, so he forcibly grabbed her and pulled her back inside and apparently he left a bruise on her arm in the process. He never punched her, beat her or did anything other than restrain her until she had calmed down, but afterwards she waited a few hours to sober up and went to the police.

The DA wanted to charge him with unlawful imprisonment, (a felony), and he plead it down to a misdemeanor charge punished by home monitoring and probation. Had it been me, I would have fought it out in court, but he was in the middle of a divorce and wanted to be able to still see his son. Unfortunately for him, he'll probably never be able to own a gun again.

So these are the kinds of minor infractions that are already included in the federal database. If this new legislation allows people like my friend to get their rights back and keeps a few documented psychos, like Seung Hui Cho, from buying guns, then I'm for it.

So these are the kinds of minor infractions that are already included in the federal database. If this new legislation allows people like my friend to get their rights back and keeps a few documented psychos, like Seung Hui Cho, from buying guns, then I'm for it.

In effect, you're betting your right to own and carry a weapon on that big 'IF'.

We can't ~allow~ this database type of infringement, period. - Such a power is, and always will be abused.
Bet on that.

If this new legislation allows people like my friend to get their rights back and keeps a few documented psychos, like Seung Hui Cho, from buying guns, then I'm for it.

Which goes right back to the FACT that once Hinkley Psycho finds out they can't buy a gun legally they will just find one illegally. It's beyond laughable that anyone would think a law will stop a criminal or a psycho from obtaining a weapon.