RE: Senate rejects Background Check (for Firearm Purchase) Bill
April 18, 2013 at 8:50 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2013 at 8:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)
To be fair, states and the federal government already require background checks. The background check issue is a loophole of person-person "private" transactions. The federal background checks required of licensed dealers (who the fuck buys a rifle from billybob anyway...godamned rednecks, don't even go in for the quality gear........) are pretty thoroughly enforced - insomuch as they can be, the state bacground checks are much more lax, and overall even licensed dealers like to go the gun shows and make "private transactions".
I think that this one should be isolated and put up for the vote as well, without any baggage that might weigh it down and delay the loophole being closed. I think the system in place trikes a fair balance. They run the check, they keep the check on file for a set period of time, then they discard the record/file it away (so as to avoid making a "list of gun owners"). If you don't give a politician anything else to point at as a screen for activities performed at the behest of his owners it makes pointing the finger a whole hell of alot easier.
(I never understood the capacity thing - in the service we just taped magazines opposite ends to make reloading faster, you just pull down, flip, reinsert. The capacity of the magazine is entirely irrelevant as this takes -maybe- a second to accomplish. But hey, the entire assault rifle thing is something I don't understand, so meh)
I think that this one should be isolated and put up for the vote as well, without any baggage that might weigh it down and delay the loophole being closed. I think the system in place trikes a fair balance. They run the check, they keep the check on file for a set period of time, then they discard the record/file it away (so as to avoid making a "list of gun owners"). If you don't give a politician anything else to point at as a screen for activities performed at the behest of his owners it makes pointing the finger a whole hell of alot easier.
(I never understood the capacity thing - in the service we just taped magazines opposite ends to make reloading faster, you just pull down, flip, reinsert. The capacity of the magazine is entirely irrelevant as this takes -maybe- a second to accomplish. But hey, the entire assault rifle thing is something I don't understand, so meh)
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