{"id":56969,"date":"2014-12-09T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56969"},"modified":"2014-12-09T09:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T14:18:41","slug":"pa-lawmakers-background-checks-for-military-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56969","title":{"rendered":"PA lawmakers; background checks for military awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Allentown\/Lehigh Valley Morning Call<\/a> writes that Bucks County Lawmakers want to apply gun control laws to the purchase of military awards. Of course, there are already laws against being a phony soldier, but, as with gun control laws, prosecutors don’t want to do their jobs, so lawmakers want to write even more laws to make up for incompetent and lazy government employees. <\/p>\n

Sean Schafer, policy director for state Sen. Tommy Tomlinson, R-Bucks, and Dan Fraley, Bucks County’s director of Veterans Affairs, agree. They plan to do something about it, too.<\/p>\n

Schafer pointed out that civilians may treat perceived military members differently based on their appearance. He is investigating possible legislation to restrict Pennsylvania civilians’ ability to buy military honors.<\/p>\n

“If we forbid stolen valor, why do we allow people to sell stolen valor?” Schafer said.<\/p>\n

There are no regulations on the sale of military items such as the 30 or so military ribbons, badges and awards, including those awarded for valor. That means authentic military uniforms, badges, medals and other military accessories, including Purple Hearts and Silver Stars, are sold in surplus Army\/Navy stores and online. Good replica awards are enough to fool most civilians, military officials said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, I guess there’s going to be a series of background check laws that will only affect legal valor owners. It will create an illegal trade that will only add to the excitement of stolen valor as the valor thieves buy their third award of the CIB out of the trunk of a car in a dark parking lot. Or the less adventurous will just purchase their HALO wings from an overseas pirate website. And there will also be the Gun Show loophole that will have to be closed.<\/p>\n

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that some dealers in the valor trade already self-police and don’t sell to valor thieves, like our friends at My Service Pride<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We can continue to write more laws to prevent the purchase of illegal awards and badges…or we can make the prosecutors do their f***ing jobs. I guess it just makes us feel better to write more stupid laws than expect people to do the jobs that they’re hired to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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