Don’t fall asleep on this one. This is just the foot in the door type of legislation that can be used to expand Federal power over firearms ownership down the road. The NRA is trying to sell this compromise the way the Bush Administration has tried to sell amnesty to illegals. The liberals are well schooled in the art of the dialectic: the provision of “two steps forward, one step back” toward their long-term goal: the disarming of private citizens as has happened in Britain and Australia.
I'm a a bit confused about some of the comments posted here. You seem to be the only one who really sees how truly dangerous this bill is. We are now opening up a goverment process that will allow the governmenet to decide who is too mentally ill to own a gun.
IMHO, beause of the passage of this bill, anyone who sees a psychiatrist, is prescribed a psychotropic drug for any reason, had an eating disorder in adolescence, and on and on, may not be able to pass the NIC's background check.
For someone to think that this is a fundraiser for the GOA is ludicrous, again, IMHO.