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  • IRS watchdog: Contractors who failed background checks maintained access to sensitive agency systems

    02/09/2024 4:43:04 PM PST · by devane617 · 3 replies
    apneas ^ | 02/09/2024
    A new IRS inspector general report said the nation’s tax collection agency continued to give 19 contractors access to sensitive systems despite having background reports that were returned as “not favorable.” Despite having the unfavorable rating returned as recently as July 13, 2023, “These contractors still retained their access to one or more sensitive systems because the IRS did not take action to suspend or disable the contractors from the IRS’s systems, as required,” according to a report issued this week by the Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration. IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel — who took over the agency...
  • Background Checks, Gun Licensing, Fail to Prevent Prague Mass Shooting

    12/21/2023 9:43:27 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 6 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12/21/2023 | AWR HAWKINS
    Stringent gun controls proved futile when at least ten people were killed and upwards of 30 others hurt in Prague during a mass shooting Thursday. France 24 reported the shooting occurred in a school located in Jan Palach Square. Prague is the capital city of the Czech Republic, a country with stringent gun controls and no guaranteed right to firearm possession.
  • House, Senate Democrats Push Background Checks for Ammo Purchases

    11/04/2023 8:02:58 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 69 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 11/04/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) are pushing legislation to require background checks for ammunition purchases. They are joined by other Democrats, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL). The Democrats are pushing the Ammunition Modernization and Monitoring Oversight Act, or AMMO Act for short. In addition to requiring background checks for ammo purchases, Redstate noted the Act would also limit the number of rounds law-abiding citizens can buy over a five-day period and mandate that ammo dealers get a license separate from the Federal Firearms License (FFL) required for gun sales.
  • Harris: We’re Focusing on Guns, Background Checks Not ‘Political Games’ on Impeachment

    09/26/2023 6:15:18 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 23 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 09/26/2023 | Ian hatchett
    During an interview with “PBS NewsHour” aired on Tuesday, Vice President Kamala Harris stated that the White House isn’t going “to be distracted by political games” like the Republican impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden and will “stay focused” on efforts on guns, including background checks, because “It’s just reasonable that you might want to know before someone can buy a lethal weapon” if a court has found them to be a danger. Co-host Geoff Bennett asked, “Also, on Thursday, House Republicans are going to open their impeachment inquiry into President Biden with their first impeachment hearing. What’s the administration’s...
  • Ruling Class Sides With Transgender Shooter Who Murdered 6 At Tennessee Christian School

    04/07/2023 1:36:46 AM PDT · by spirited irish · 24 replies
    PatriotandLiberty Blog ^ | 4/6/23 | Jordon Boyd
    Instead of speaking out in support of Christians following the attack, the people who run the White House, Congress, state governments, top corporations, and the entertainment industry responded to the tragic deaths by offering solidarity with trans-identifying Americans like the Nashville shooter.
  • Opinion: Background Checks and Changing the Subject

    Some politicians address challenges head-on. Others attempt distractions, changing the subject in the hope that the public will forget the ongoing disasters of their governance. It should be no surprise by now that Joe Biden falls in the latter group. As the American economy continues to stagnate, with high inflation, a sluggish stock market, and the promise of home ownership moving into unreachable territory, Joe Biden has returned to one of his favorite cons: the idea that he can make Americans safer by expanding unconstitutional gun control measures. As America’s financial pages attempted to learn from the sudden collapses of...
  • Killer in Riverside triple slaying, ‘catfishing’ case passed background checks for law enforcement jobs, sheriff says

    11/29/2022 11:36:04 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 4 replies
    ktla ^ | Cameron Kiszla
    The police officer accused of killing three people and kidnapping a girl in Riverside on Friday passed a background check and psychological testing before being hired, according to officials in Virginia. According to police, Edwards “catfished” the girl using a fake identity, then kidnapped her in the 11200 block of Price Court, killed 69-year-old Mark Winek, his 65-year-old wife Sharie Winek and their daughter, 38-year-old Brooke Winek, and set fire to the teen’s home. He later was killed in a gunfight with deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The girl was unharmed. Before Friday, however, he had been...
  • Next up fighting NYC crime wave? Preventing landlords from doing criminal background checks on prospective tenants

    11/28/2022 10:42:33 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 2 replies
    Hotair ^ | 11/28/2022 | Beege Welborn
    They voted themselves in a couple of gems, these New York City folks did. Between actually electing Kathy Hochul to continue her reign of incoherence and incompetence, coupled with their already in-situ fashion plate, empty-suit city chief executive, Big Apple dwellers might as well save time and just beat themselves up.Emboldened by the election of state and local politicians, a NYC Council bill that had seemed doomed to ashes is experiencing a Phoenix-like rebirth. To his eternal shame, New York City mayor Eric Adams has signaled he is willing to sign it.What is Mayor Adams willing to sign? THIS abomination.A...
  • Police flagged Highland Park shooter ‘clear and present danger’ in 2019; he later cleared 4 background checks

    07/05/2022 10:54:03 PM PDT · by McGruff · 63 replies
    Fox News ^ | July 6, 2022 | Lawrence Richard
    The suspect in the Highland Park, Illinois, Fourth of July mass shooting was flagged by police as a "clear and present danger" in 2019, authorities said Tuesday. Robert "Bobby" E. Crimo III, 21, the suspect in the mass shooting that killed seven people and wounded dozens of others at a Fourth of July parade, was still able to clear state-required background checks to purchase firearms on at least four separate occasions between 2020 and 2021, the Illinois State Police said. "In September 2019, ISP received a Clear and Present Danger report on the subject from the Highland Park Police Department....
  • Toomey: Expanding Gun Background Checks ‘on the Table

    06/05/2022 9:59:55 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 35 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 06/05/2022 | Pam Key
    Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that expanding background check requirements for purchasing guns was “on the table” in the Senate negotiations on a gun package.
  • Spending Bill Includes Gun Control Passages That Can Lead To Mass Criminal Investigations of Potential Gun Buyers

    03/11/2022 2:44:01 PM PST · by packagingguy · 40 replies
    National File ^ | March 11, 2022 | Patrick Howley
    Second Amendment supporters are scrambling to stop the gun control passages buried in the text of the latest Washington “omnibus” spending bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and then sadly passed the U.S. Senate to advance to the desk of Joe Biden’s White House handlers. A major pro-Second Amendment advocacy group is leading the charge to highlight the buried gun control passages in the more than $1.5 trillion bill. The bill reportedly finances the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to facilitate a big Democrat cause: using local law enforcement to enforce the gun-grabbing laws of the...
  • GUN OWNERS DEFEAT ANTI-GUNNERS UBC SCHEME (Fantastic Pro 2nd Amendment News!)

    12/02/2021 5:17:56 PM PST · by Perseverando · 13 replies
    Gun Owners of America ^ | December 2, 2021 | Aidan Johnston
    Yesterday evening and this morning, we sent you two URGENT action alerts. And you all responded marvelously. The team here at GOA is so grateful for all of you who took action. Your loud voice makes it known to legislators on Capitol Hill that people back at home are truly watching what they’re doing. Yesterday our team in Washington, D.C., learned that anti-gunners in the Senate were trying to pass Universal Background Checks without a single senator voting. So-called Universal Background Checks are only enforceable if the government has a registry to check if a gun belongs to a gun...
  • Are You an Employer Who Does Criminal Background Checks on Job Applicants? Maxine Waters Wants to Punish You — Bigly

    04/30/2021 7:04:36 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 18 replies
    Red State ^ | 04/30/2021 | Mike Miller
    Auntie Maxine is up to her old ways, America. Actually, Mad Max is continuing her “always ways” — with a vengeance. Now that the Devil’s spawn is finally out of office, the loony California Democrat can focus her entire, bitter self on other people and things — like evil employers who conduct criminal background checks on job applicants.As reported by The National Pulse, Maxine Waters (D-LOON), and Maryland Democrat Rep. David Trone introduced legislation on Thursday that would deny federal grants to businesses that conduct criminal background checks on job applicants.Think about that, for a minute. What could possibly go...
  • FBI Waives Background Check Requirements for Those Housing Unaccompanied Minors

    03/28/2021 11:26:26 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 50 replies
    Townhall ^ | 03/28/2021 | Beth Baumann
    The Democrats have repeatedly argued that "universal background checks" are a way of ensuring only law-abiding Americans can purchase firearms. While spewing that (very false) rhetoric out of their mouth, the Biden administration is rolling back requirements for caregivers taking in unaccompanied minors. The Biden administration is utilizing tent camps, convention centers, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Border Patrol facilities, as well as other large facilities to house the record number of unaccompanied minors that are flocking across the border. In order to quickly staff these facilities, the FBI is no longer requiring fingerprint background checks for those being...
  • Boulder shooting suspect passed background check, gun shop owner says

    03/26/2021 10:36:37 AM PDT · by Marinario · 51 replies
    CBN ^ | March 26, 2021
    (CNN)The man charged with killing 10 people in a Boulder grocery store passed a background check and purchased the weapon used in the slaughter, a Colorado gun shop owner said Friday. The suspected gunman, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, purchased a Ruger AR-556 on March 16 -- days before the shootings, a senior law enforcement source told CNN on condition of anonymity.
  • Boulder shooting suspect Ahmad Alissa reportedly passed gun background check

    03/26/2021 5:42:22 AM PDT · by conservative98 · 26 replies
    NY Post ^ | 26, 2021 | 7:20am | Yaron SteinbuchMarch
    A store where the suspect in the Colorado supermarket massacre bought his gun reportedly said the sale was lawful after he passed a background check. Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, 21, bought his AR-15-style Ruger AR-556 at the Eagles Nest Armory in Arvada, about 20 miles southeast of Boulder, 9NEWS reported. The store’s owner, John Mark Eagleton, said the accused gunman passed a background check before making the purchase. “We are absolutely shocked by what happened and our hearts are broken for the victims and families that are left behind,” he wrote in a statement to the outlet. “Ensuring every sale...
  • Nancy Pelosi Replaces Beto O'Rourke As Biden's AR-15 Gun-Grab Czar

    03/10/2021 1:56:16 PM PST · by raptor22 · 62 replies
    The Constitutional Conservatives ^ | March 10 2021 | Daniel John Sobieski
    During the 2020 presidential campaign, Texas Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke often bellowed on how, if elected president, he wanted to take away your firearms, specifically your “military-style” AR-15 through a mandatory gun buy-back program, something unconstitutional on its face and a direct infringement of the right to keep and bear arms enshrined in the Second Amendment, During the Democratic presidential primary debate on October 15, 2019, the Congressman responded to the question of how he intended to enforce that proposed gun buyback program: Although he hasn’t offered exact specifics on the program, he did share some additional details at the...
  • Report: Chris Murphy to Put Forward Universal Background Checks for Biden

    02/18/2021 6:01:08 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 14 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/18/2021 | Awr Hawkins
    In coming weeks Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reportedly plans to put forward the universal background check legislation President Biden wants to sign. The Hill reports Murphy reacted to Biden’s February 14, 2021, call for universal background checks by making clear he will put such legislation forward.
  • Susan Rice Abandoned Me During A Gunfight In Benghazi. She’ll Abandon You On Guns

    01/27/2021 8:54:25 AM PST · by Kaslin · 38 replies
    the federalist ^ | January 27, 2021 | Mark 'OZ' Geist
    <p>It’s a painful lesson we learned with the truth about what caused of deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty, and Tyrone Woods. Rice knowingly lied to cover up the mistakes made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, then Vice President Biden and President Barack Obama, who failed to fulfil their duty and protect the lives of Americans overseas. Ambassador Rice made the rounds on five Sunday morning talk shows spreading lies of how the coordinated attack on a U.S. compound was sparked by a video no one ever saw nor heard.</p>
  • ELLA INTERVIEWS FAMOUS WHISTLEBLOWER BLAKE PERCIVAL

    01/21/2021 7:10:46 PM PST · by patriot torch · 6 replies
    Youtube ^ | Ella
    Blake worked for USIS, also known as United States Investigations Services, where he rose through the ranks to the position of Director. USIS was a Company contracted by the government to conduct National Security Clearance Background Investigations on prospective and current Federal employees. Blake became a Whistleblower in July of 2011 when he exposed that USIS was billing the U.S. Government for background investigations that allegedly had not been properly reviewed.