Posted on 02/27/2013 11:21:30 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
Now that they're facing Washington's first serious push for new gun violence prevention laws since the Columbine massacre, gun lobbyists are grasping at straws — as in "straw" purchases.
That's the slang for someone who legally buys a firearm from a licensed gun dealer, then sells it to someone whose criminal or mental health record prohibits them from making a legal purchase.
The National Rifle Association's official position favors prosecuting straw purchasers, but defends allowing sales at gun shows without background checks from private dealers.
In the 1990s, you may recall, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA's executive vice president, supported universal background checks for all gun purchasers. "No exceptions," he said.
Now the organization is against background checks, calling the current push in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre "a thinly veiled national gun registration scheme."
As if that were a bad thing. It is ridiculous in my view to require licenses for cars but not for guns. Yet, while all states require licenses for cars, the federal government prohibits itself, at the NRA's urging, from keeping a national registry of gun owners.
Short of that, most of the country, including many gun owners in recent surveys, favor background checks as a reasonable requirement for people who want to purchase firearms.
(Excerpt) Read more at my.chicagotribune.com ...
Driving isn’t a right. End of debate.
Driving isn’t a right. End of debate.
Bull crap. No background checks. Tackle the real problem mental illness, bring back the mental institutions from years ago, maybe you can start in Washington DC.
This requires a BARF ALERT.
I must have missed the Right to Keep & Drive Cars in The Bill of Rights.
Bull crap. No background checks. Tackle the real problem mental illness, bring back the mental institutions from years ago, maybe you can start in Washington DC.
If they are loosing or so out of touch, why have so many people joined the NRA since Newtown? I just joined and they had a 8 week backlog for new member cards.
Why does anyone even care to read what the Tribune things of the NRA?!?
Over all I think they (Gun Grabers)can “BITE ME”
MOLON LABE
Signs that the NRA is losing:
“I turn on my TV every night and every channel I turn to tells me they’re losing”.
It’s the old “implied close” in sales terms. Talk as if it’s a done deal, and pretty soon people start to accept tjat it is.
One can own a car or several cars without having to ‘license’ or even register them as long as they are not driven on the public highways.
Clarence Page=Obamabot
The Tribune is up for sale. Perhaps, the NRA could buy it and not renew Clarence Page’s contract.
Who but this corrupt and vile administration would know more about straw purchases. After all that was their MO during the F&F days. We have entered the Royal Epoch, those in DC are a law unto themselves. We the People are now all serfs. The only nit is the serfs arent all that keen to give up arms. The Royals only have the force card yet to play. They sure dont have legal authority to do what theyre about to do.
I’m sure all the weapons used in 500 murders in Chicago last year were ALL legally purchased.They are throwing stones in a bio-dome!
When I hear straw gun purchases I think of gunwalking and then Fast and Furious. Perhaps the Obama admin can enlighten us on how what they did was not in violation of present law and why they think more laws are the answer to their manufactured crisis.
I’m not buying it and neither are a thousand or so of my gun club buddies!
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