Even gun-control opponents favor a bill to improve background checks on gun buyers.

News Day (all the trash that's fit to spew) ^ | 29 September 2003 | staff (too cowardly to sign the piece)

[45Auto]

In a gratifying bipartisan moment, members of Congress usually on opposite sides of the gun-control divide announced agreement last week on what would be the first major gun control legislation to be enacted in a decade.

The bill would give states cash to update their records on people who cannot legally own guns, and to send that data to the National Instant Criminal Background Check system, known as NICS. That federal system for screening would-be gun buyers is only as good as the information in its computerized data base. Right now, that's not very good. Too many states have spotty data or, for technical reasons, fail to share what they have with Washington.

No votes have been scheduled on the bill. But with friends of the National Rifle Association such as Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) on board with gun-control advocates Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-Mineola) and Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), the odds are good the bill will become law.

[45Auto]

"Common-sense" gun control. This RKBA advocate and gun control opponent is against this expansion of the unconstitutional Brady Law. Soon if you have an outstanding parking ticklet it will be grounds to deny you your Constitutional right to keep and bear. Its amazing to me how these idiots in the press so blithely give up not only their RKBA, but yours as well. Its a sad day when the likes of Schumer and that enemy of freedom McCrathy team up to further stick the knife in the backs of those who love liberty; and its a sad day when we just sit and take it when its supposedly the "good guys" in the GOP who currently have the majority in Congress AND the White House. My continued support for the GOP and President Bush hinges onthe successful sunsetting of the odiously unconstitutional federal AW ban. If that piece of crap is renwed, all bets are off and other means will have to be considered.

[Sir Gawain]

If they vote for the bill, vote them out of office.

[45Auto]

I must be losing it; parking "ticklet"; maybe that's not a bad idea.

I don't like to see the NRA get in bed with Schumer; that's not a good sign for continued liberty. Any expansion of the federal database means that eventually, any little infraction could get you barred for life from owning a gun. What these malcontents in Congress aren't telling us is that if they find out that somebody has been approved for gun purchase that, according to them, shouldn't have been, they will send out the SWAT team to take away your arms. The ghost of Reno lives. Its one more step towards a national gun registry and eventually a national gun confiscation.

[Rusty Shackelford]

Another nail in the coffin. I'm just plain not voting anymore. The Republicans have embraced large government.

[society-by-contract]

If they vote for the bill, vote them out of office.

Voting gives the state legitimacy and, perhaps, is even immoral. I write the words None of the Above in the write-in section of the ballot. As the phrase goes "Don't vove, it only encourages them."

[cruiserman]

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) on board

Larry, what are you doing?

[Neil E. Wright]

bump

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[neverdem]

Do you think that because Senator Craig is a co-sponsor of this bill that it is OK with the NRA? Do you know if Rep. Dingell is still a member of the board of the NRA?