United States – -(AmmoLand.com)- Sometimes, Second Amendment supporters do not need a lengthy discourse to show their fellow gun owners just how unreasonable anti-Second Amendment extremists are. Sometimes, it takes less than a half-dozen pieces of paper. Sound crazy? No, it isn’t.
Here’s how you can do it. First, you just need to print out the GPO’s official version of S 4068, the Background Check Completion Act of 2020, introduced by Senator Richard Blumenthal, who has long had a record of attacking our Second Amendment rights. That takes two pages. Then you can print out the text of 18 USC 922(t), which covers the National Instant Check System (NICS). That takes three pages for just that section (all of 18 USC 922 runs about 28 pages).
With those five pieces of paper, you can prove that anti-Second Amendment extremists are lying when they say they claim to support the Second Amendment, but just want “reasonable” restrictions. Reading the text of S 4068, it makes a small deletion but causes a massive shift for those who are trying to exercise their rights.
Under current law, if NICS cannot be completed in three business days, a federally licensed dealer can still transfer a firearm. While the setup of NICS is not ideal, the current setup has several points that make it much fairer than various licensing and waiting period schemes:
- It presumes that someone seeking to buy a firearm is law-abiding.
- It places the burden to deny a firearms transaction on the government.
- It also does not subject someone trying to exercise their rights into an indefinite wait.
Blumenthal’s bill changes that. It removes the three business day limit on a delay. In other words, if there is a delay for whatever reason (NICS is down, confusion), a law-abiding citizen is denied the right to purchase a firearm until the delay gets resolved, and without the time limit, that can be potential for some serious, life-threatening abuse.
Imagine what IRS workers under Lois Lerner did to the Tea Party’s applications for tax-exempt status being applied to firearm purchases run through NICS. The injustices faced by potentially millions of law-abiding gun owners (especially when demand for firearms shoots through the roof, as it has in recent weeks) would be appalling. Worse, the tragedy of Carol Bowne would be repeated across the entire country. And many of those trying to infringe on our Second Amendment rights claim they stand with women.
But in Blumenthal’s mind, that’s all okay. Because to him, gun ownership isn’t a right – it’s a privilege that should be determined by the government. Second Amendment supporters should contact their Senators and Representative and urge them to oppose S 4068.
About Harold Hutchison
Writer Harold Hutchison has more than a dozen years of experience covering military affairs, international events, U.S. politics and Second Amendment issues. Harold was consulting senior editor at Soldier of Fortune magazine and is the author of the novel Strike Group Reagan. He has also written for the Daily Caller, National Review, Patriot Post, Strategypage.com, and other national websites.
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Here’s the list of cosponsors. https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4068/cosponsors?searchResultViewType=expanded
24 Democrats and Uncle Bernie. These people need to be reminded who they work for!
Your link to contact their Senators and Representative
NRA-ILA Active Alerts does not show any for my State.
It shows 17 States to contact. Try Again.
Every time I have purchased a firearm from my local dealer for the past ten years I get a delay response and I must wait for the pickup of my new gun.
What gets me is I’ve held a state issued conceal carry license for the last thirteen years which by the way has been through the FBI backround check plus the state of MIssouri Highway Patrol check.
I will no longer be able to buy another gun if this Dick gets this into law, his parents named him the correct name DICK.
First article written by Harold, that I appreciate!
I can only wonder why we don’t have similar “checks” to buy a knife, axe, chainsaw etc…
In the meantime I am on month 10 for a darn suppressor, something that in many severely restrictive countries you can buy over the counter