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Senators file bill allowing gun data to be shared
St. Louis Post Dispatch ^ | December 9, 2001 | AP

Posted on 12/10/2001 6:49:13 AM PST by Lyndal

Edited on 05/11/2004 10:57:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Attorney General John Ashcroft's refusal to give information to the FBI about criminal background checks on gun buyers is chafing several senators. They plan to do what Ashcroft challenged them to do: change the law.

Ashcroft told the Senate Judiciary Committee that gun data from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System can't be shared with investigative agencies looking into the Sept. 11 attacks - including the FBI.


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I did a search and did not find this, so if posted I apologize in advance.

We need to contact our Senators and Rep's and let thme know that we do not want this passed.

1 posted on 12/10/2001 6:49:13 AM PST by Lyndal
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To: Lyndal
Yep, and our Social Security numbers will ONLY be used for Social Security.
2 posted on 12/10/2001 6:54:55 AM PST by dirtboy
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To: *bang_list
Bang!
3 posted on 12/10/2001 6:54:56 AM PST by Constitution Day
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To: Lyndal
First, let's have made public the truth about Chappaquidick.
4 posted on 12/10/2001 6:54:56 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Lyndal
Mathew Nosanchuk, lawyer for the Violence Policy Center, said, "They have been a bull in a china shop when it comes to civil liberties, stretching their authority past the breaking point, detaining suspects and witnesses, permitting eavesdropping on detainees' conversations with attorneys and authorizing military tribunals."

What this anti-gun idiot fails to state is that all of the people targeted above are SUSPECTS or involved with suspects. The vast majority of people who buy guns are NOT suspected of anything. But of course the liberals see every gun owner as a potential terrorist.

5 posted on 12/10/2001 6:54:57 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants
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To: Lyndal
Another attemp by the Anti's to establish a national gun registration data base in the hopes that someday they well be able to pass a law outlawing all gun ownership.
6 posted on 12/10/2001 6:58:12 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: Lyndal
Once again the gun control crowd dances on the graves of the victims of 9-11 to try and cram more useless gun laws down our collective throats! Oh yes, lets go after law-abiding citizens!! That'll stop Terrorism!!!
7 posted on 12/10/2001 7:02:45 AM PST by Destructor
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To: riverrunner
Gun control is for pussys

8 posted on 12/10/2001 7:02:57 AM PST by Khepera
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To: Lyndal
These guys may be shooting themselves in the feet with this. They have just proven that the Feds cannot be trusted with confidential information because they will change the rules in the middle middle of the game.

Just imagine how they will abuse a national ID card if they ever get one passed. Once they get it, they will change the rules on it, too.

9 posted on 12/10/2001 7:03:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Lyndal
What a bunch of knuckleheads. Those Muslim terrorists did not use guns in their attacks. If anything, the Senators should enact a law banning boxcutters.
10 posted on 12/10/2001 7:06:40 AM PST by spald
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
How about this? A National ID card that is tied to the NICS database that will tell any agency that wants to know, when it checks your ID, how many and what type of guns you have purchased.
11 posted on 12/10/2001 7:07:17 AM PST by Lyndal
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How about this? A National ID card that is tied to the NICS database that will tell any agency that wants to know, when it checks your ID, how many and what type of guns you have purchased.

What a great idea! Even better, would be for the ID card to have a code on it that allows any government agent at all to tune in on the microphones and cameras installed in the ID card-holders house, including audio feed of the telephone, right then and there!

12 posted on 12/10/2001 7:17:08 AM PST by coloradan
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To: Lyndal
How about this? A National ID card that is tied to the NICS database that will tell any agency that wants to know, when it checks your ID, how many and what type of guns you have purchased.

Or how about this? A National ID card that lists all your savings, checking and stock accounts so the DEA can know who it would be most lucrative to use their asset forfeiture powers on?

13 posted on 12/10/2001 7:18:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: pabianice
First, let's have made public the truth about Chappaquidick.

First fact. Ted Kennedy has killed more people with his car than my gun has.
14 posted on 12/10/2001 7:30:17 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: Khepera
I'm calling PETA!
15 posted on 12/10/2001 7:31:15 AM PST by sasquatch
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To: Lyndal
Another step on the road to another civil war. Probably not in our lifetimes, but someday.

Interesting, I keep hearing that we are defeating al-Queda.

It would appear to me that they have successfully started the destruction of the BOR and Constitution at our own hands - in the names of "safety" and "security".

We have become a nation of cowards and wussies. We expect the military to keep us safe and cozy from those bad poo-poo terrorists and other nasty, bad ca-ca people. We're too busy at the mall - call us when it's safe to come out.

It is definitely enough to make you puke.

prambo

16 posted on 12/10/2001 7:36:58 AM PST by prambo
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To: Lyndal
They can also add the code necessary to electronically disable your "safe" weapons.
17 posted on 12/10/2001 7:40:03 AM PST by anothergrunt
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To: prambo
"Probably not in our lifetimes"........if not in our lifetimes it won't happen. the young do not know and do not care.
18 posted on 12/10/2001 7:42:37 AM PST by Rustynailww
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To: Lyndal
Let me get this straight - the law says specifically that this information is for checking for felons, and is not to be retained except for a limited period of time for an audit to ensure that the system is working correctly. Now all of a sudden they want to change the rules and use the data other ways, and when they do so it does not go away (not that it ever really did).

Remember this when some gun-control nazi says that the law he or she is enacting is just "common sense" and will never function as an incremental lockdown or be abused in any way. They're liars, and this proves it.

19 posted on 12/10/2001 8:02:37 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Lyndal
...and it was sickening to see those "rule-of-law" schmucks like schumer grilling Ashcroft on why he chose to follow the law.
20 posted on 12/10/2001 8:14:33 AM PST by kennyo
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