🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 21 May 2002 13:14:52 -0700, "Jim Cammarano"
<hmcinc@compuserve.com> wrote:

>>
>> 'Course OTOH, we could still otherwise be stuck with a five day
>> waiting period. Would that be better than the NICS?
>
>HOW ABOUT NO WAITING PERIOD! What good is NICS?  They just computerized the
>records they said were only 50% accurate.  So now they can be just as
>inaccurate only faster.  The point of the system supposedly is to prevent
>criminals from getting firearms. Apparently, it is NOT being used for that
>purpose.  Since the Brady Bill went into effect less than 12 people have
>been convicted and the point for this infringement on our Consitutional
>right is............?

Sigh.....  When the Brady Bill was being argued, the NRA counted noses
and knew we were going to lose on that one.  How bad was the question.
Brady, at that time was purely a waiting period, no back ground checks.
We had several states to point to which had honest-to-god instant check
systems like the credit card companies use.   The NRA began to push
another bill which was an instant check system modeled after the ones
already used in some states.  No waiting period.  We began to make
headway and the Brady backers panicked, changed the bill to eventually
change to an instant check system but with a 5 day wait unless you were
cleared or found wanting in a shorter time.  The bill was enacted and
signed into law.   The wait was to sunset after Sept 1, 1999 and become
a true instant check system.   The antis quickly began work on Brady II
which would delay or kill the instant check system and default to a
California delay.   Brady II never made it out the door.  AG Reno got
caught unprepared when time ran out and had the FBI cobble together the
current NICS system.  A system Clinton and Company never intended to
work properly and it doesn't, by design.  But that isn't the NRA's
fault.  We did the best we could with a bad situation and found, that
once again, we were dealing with people without principles.   But the
NRA is still being blamed, even by some of its members...


Sam A. Kersh
NRA Patron Member
L.E.A.A. Life Member
TSRA Life Member
GOA, JPFO, SAF
http://www.flash.net/~csmkersh/
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