Additional Facts that Undermine a Key Component of Bloomberg’s Gun-Control Agenda

Universal Background Checks
Additional Facts that Undermine a Key Component of Bloomberg’s Gun-Control Agenda
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NRA – ILA

Charlotte, NC –-(Ammoland.com)- Regarding calls for universal background Checks:

  • They are already required for dealer sales of firearms, whether at brick and mortar shops or gun shows.
  • They are already required when firearms are sold across state lines, including firearms advertised online.
  • They do not, nor can they, identify or stop persons whose behavior has not already resulted in some intervention by the criminal justice or mental health systems. They are necessarily backward-looking, not forward-looking.
  • According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, most criminals who use guns get them from theft, on the black market, or from acquaintances. Background checks are irrelevant in these circumstances.
  • According to the BATFE, nearly half of illegally trafficked firearms originate with straw purchasers. Background checks cannot stop straw purchasers; indeed, straw purchasers exploit the current background check system.
  • It is already illegal for a person to transfer a firearm to another individual who the person knows or reasonably should know is prohibited by law from having it. This applies whether the transaction is conducted by a dealer or private person.
  • It is already illegal for a person to provide a firearm to another individual who the person knows intends to use it in a violent or drug trafficking crime. This applies whether the transaction is conducted by a dealer or private person.

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Dr Dave

Don Technically the 2nd Amendment is not violated by the background check. The 2ndA allows for the keeping and bearing of arms NOT the sale of or transfer to of arms. The Gov CAN and obviously has written laws to require certain conditions to exist to BUY guns but not to keep and bear them. Anyone can own a gun (including a felon) but not everyone can BUY a gun. A felon can even own an arsenal of guns as long as he doesn’t have “immediate control” over them. Basically if a felon has a collection of guns for investment… Read more »

Donald L. Cline

Will you 1) please STOP validating the destruction of our fundamental right to privacy and due process by supporting a search (interrogation under penalty of perjury) in the absence of probable cause of wrongdoing as a precondition to receiving “permission” to exercise our right to keep and bear arms? And 2) will you please STOP validating the NON-delegated authority of the federal government to issue or deny “permission” to exercise a RIGHT? C’mon, people! The federal government has no authority over the private right to keep and bear arms PERIOD! It had devolved into a rogue occupation government deriving no… Read more »