The 2nd Day of Christmas by Bloomberg & Beto-Backed Texas Lawmakers

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On the 2nd day of Christmas, more anti-gun measures from Bloomberg and Beto in Texas. IMG iStock-884200682

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- ‘Tis the season at the Texas Capitol for extreme gun control bills; lumps of coal stuffed in stockings and hung on mantles for gun owners in advance of the 2021 legislative session.  Pre-filed by anti-gun politicians who were backed by New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and BETO “Hell Yeah, I’ll Take Your Guns” O’Rourke in 2020, these bills are paybacks to their radical supporters who want to ban firearms, defund police and make YOU less safe.

NRA-ILA is counting down some of the worst measures for you this month.  Please support NRA-ILA as we work with gun owners to STAND YOUR GROUND on the Second Amendment in the Texas Legislature next year!

Second up: a state ban on the private sale and transfer of your firearms.  This restriction is so popular with the Bloomberg & BETO allies in the Texas Legislature that with still a month to go before the start of the legislative session, no less than SIX bills have already been filed to prohibit private firearms sales and transfers at gun shows (House Bill 52 by Rep. Ron Reynolds, House Bill 245 by Rep. Diego Bernal & House Bill 760 by Rep Vikki Goodwin) or universally (House Bill 118 by Lina Ortega, House Bill 606 by Rep. Vikki Goodwin & Senate Bill 163 by Sen. Cesar Blanco).

Expanded background check schemes are intrusive, ineffective, and unenforceable.

Family members, friends, neighbors, co-workers, hunting buddies, competitive shooters, and gun club members wishing to sell or transfer firearms to one another would be forced to conduct these transactions through a federal firearm licensed dealer (FFL), since private individuals cannot access the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).  This process requires the completion of extensive federal paperwork, payment of an undetermined fee, and approval from the U.S. government.  Traditional, innocent conduct becomes a criminal offense.  Expanded background checks target and burden law-abiding citizens, while criminals, by their very definition, will violate these and other gun control laws.

Studies of, and experience with, other states’ expanded background check laws demonstrate that they are ineffective.  Research conducted by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and UC Davis concluded that California’s universal background check law had no impact on homicides or suicides.  A 2017 study by gun control researchers found that such laws in Colorado and Washington State had little measurable effect; in fact, Washington State did not even have its first charge brought for a violation of its law until almost two years after it had been in effect.  In neighboring New Mexico, a local news affiliate reported in August of 2020 that, based on court records, not a single person had ever been charged with – never mind convicted of – violating the state’s year-old universal background check law.

Expanded background checks are unenforceable without a firearms registration scheme.  A 2013 internal U.S. Department of Justice memo summarizing violence prevention strategies during the Obama/Biden Administration stated that the effectiveness of background checks depends on “requiring gun registration.” Gun registration is anathema to Texans who support the Second Amendment.

COVID-19 illustrated that in times of crisis or uncertainty, Americans buy guns.  As concerned citizens across the country lined up at gun stores to exercise their constitutional right to purchase and own firearms, state and local officials – including those in a number of Texas cities and counties – refused to designate FFLs as “essential businesses” and shut them down.  Residents in states with universal background check laws were left with no legal option to buy a gun at a time when they felt they needed one the most.

NRA-ILA will fight any and all expanded background check schemes in the 2021 session of the Texas Legislature.


About NRA-ILA:

Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the “lobbying” arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess, and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Visit: www.nra.org

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JSNMGC

That guy is great.

Totalitarians come down hard on people who don’t respect their authority – that is the worst crime imaginable. Can’t have a non-government employee disregarding their rules or it will become a popular notion.

SGT_Wombat

I live in Chicago. Illinois has universal background checks. They have not stopped the violence in Chicago.

JSNMGC

It’s odd that the habitual violent criminal in Garfield Park (who is a felon and prohibited person) doesn’t ask the habitual violent criminal (who is also a felon and prohibited person) trying to sell him a stolen gun to go with him to an FFL to run a background check and administer the sale. Instead the sale takes place in an alley and by-passes the law. A criminal preparing to commit armed robbery doesn’t follow the gun control law. Anti-gun politicians must be disappointed that person didn’t follow their rules. When the criminal gets caught for armed robbery, the first… Read more »

PMinFl

As pointed out these measures only work with total gun registration. If the government doesn’t know that you have a gun, say a glock, then they won’t know if you sold said glock to your neighbor, unless they have a list corelated to the serial numbers.

JoeUSooner

The Universal Background Check system does not work! There are (at least) three reasons why not. 1) The FBI opposes UBC. In 1995, when Congress began debates on the legislation that created the initial NICS (background check) system, the FBI insisted that the system had to apply only to Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs), not to the general public. Citing universal application’s huge cost (in budget, manpower, and time), the FBI refused to participate in the system unless it was restricted to FFLs only. So Congress wrote the legislation accordingly, exactly to FBI specification – with no “unintentional omissions,” or so-called ”loopholes.” In 1998, the… Read more »

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