[Fixit]

Only seven out of the 235 illegal gun sales between July 2001 and January 2002 were noticed after one day

Did everybody catch this little gem of information?

235 illegal gun sales in six months. Nationwide.

They want to invade the privacy of millions of Americans to maybe stop the sale of less than 500 guns a year. Gun sales that if stopped before transfer would likely be replaced by what I will euphemistically call a "less formal purchase." Many of those sales that are illegal merely due to the increasing number of things that have been criminalized in the past three decades, actions which used to be completely legal.

(Note also that it does not tell us how many were caught in the first two days, first week or even first month. It just says "7 in the first day," then goes on to puff up 90 days.)

The GAO may say that keeping gun records for only a day is risky, but I say,

Keeping gun records risks a police state, slavery, and genocide.

[coloradan]

Destroying the records might well "put guns into the hands of criminals" but then again, not destroying them will affirmatively put records of what should be private transactions into the hands of intrusive, unaccountable, and overbearing government agents. Given a choice, I'd take my chances with the former.

[SpinyNorman]

It would put a lot more guns in the hands of the right people. If honest armed citizens outnumber the armed criminals, there would be a lot less violent crime.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Only seven out of the 235 illegal gun sales between July 2001 and January 2002 were noticed after one day, according to the GAO"

Maybe if they only HAD one day, they might look FASTER!

Duh!

[epow]

We'll never be told how many of those 235 rejections were contested by the buyers and later found to have been incorrectly turned down. Clinton used to get on camera and say with a straight face how many hundreds of thousands of criminals had been kept from getting guns by the Brady law. What he never told us was that a large majority of those rejections were made in error (deliberate error?) and were later approved after the buyers contested the rejection.

[epow]

We'll never be told how many of those 235 rejections were contested by the buyers and later found to have been incorrectly turned down.

Clinton used to get on camera and say with a straight face how many hundreds of thousands of criminals had been kept from getting guns by the Brady law. What he never told us was that about half of those rejections were made in error (deliberate error?) and were later approved after the buyers contested the rejection. The Brady law is nothing more than a very expensive farce.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The gun grabbers believe that anybody but government goons is "the wrong hands". They don't give a damned if criminals have guns, in fact, if criminals DIDN'T have guns, they would have no platform at all.

This is about making sure the database is complete, nothing else.