🚀 go-pugleaf

>>If someone that has a criminal record goes
>>into buy a gun, they should not be allowed to buy a gun. 

>    This is the (alleged) reason for the Brady Law. Yet when Harley Staggers
>    presented an amendment to it requiring a background check, Brady
>    supporters screamed that it was an NRA plot to kill the bill.

>    So now we're stuck with a 5 day time out period with a purely optional
>    background check with no description of what can disallow the purchase.
>    For example, earlier this year a Dallas police officer was denied
>    because of an unpaid parking ticket. 

>    Bad laws like this one DECREASE respect for the law, not only by those
>    it is (allegedly) designed to affect, but by honest gun owners who see
>    the brunt of it.

One thing you did not mention, it was already illegal for a felon to purchase 
a handgun before the ban.

Also, at the time of the Brady Bill, the NRA introduced legislation to require 
an immediate background check on ANY firearm purchase.  Congress spiked this 
one, primarily because it was written up by the NRA.

Also, the NRA introduces LOTS of crime bills.  The NRA is for criminal 
control. 

I have yet to see what the Brady Bill does as far as putting a dent in crime.





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