{"id":76091,"date":"2017-11-21T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76091"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:43:41","slug":"new-gun-control-legislation-old-propaganda-in-a-new-wrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76091","title":{"rendered":"New gun control legislation; old propaganda in a new wrapper"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic<\/a> reports that there’s new gun control legislation, known as the Fix NICS Act<\/a>, coming down the pike to tighten background checks by making law enforcement agencies report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, (NICS) the names of people who shouldn’t have guns. Let me say up front that I fully support this effort, as does the NRA;<\/p>\n

\u201cWe applaud Senator John Cornyn\u2019s efforts to ensure that the records of prohibited individuals are entered into NICS,\u201d Chris Cox of the NRA said in a statement. \u201cThe National Rifle Association has long supported the inclusion of all legitimate records in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.\u201d The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade association for the firearms industry, put out a statement on Thursday in which it \u201cpraised U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) for his leadership\u201d on the bill.<\/p>\n

Gun-control advocates support the bill too, and say it\u2019s evidence that common ground between Republicans and Democrats in the gun debate is possible. \u201cThis is both parties affirming that there are people that we believe should not have access to guns, and we want to make sure that the system is set up in such a way that we prevent access to guns for those people,\u201d Christian Heyne, the legislative director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, which supports the legislation, said in an interview. \u201cThis is a real, genuine effort from people who couldn\u2019t be further from each other on the other side of the aisle.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The problem with the legislation is enforcement. President Obama signed an Executive Order<\/a> that was supposed to do the same thing. It made for good press, but it really didn’t change anything – after the Executive Order was signed, everyone put their feet up, lit a cigar and congratulated each other for “doing something, anything” and the EO was promptly forgotten.<\/p>\n

Before that EO, was the NICS Improvement Amendments Act of 2007<\/a> during the Bush Administration which “Amends the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act to: (1) authorize the Attorney General to obtain electronic versions of information from federal agencies on persons disqualified from receiving firearms; (2) require federal agencies to provide such information to the Attorney General, not less frequently than quarterly; and (3) require federal agencies to update, correct, modify, or remove obsolete records and notify the Attorney General of such actions to keep the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) up to date. Requires the Attorney General to submit annual reports to Congress on the compliance of federal agencies with such reporting requirements.<\/em>” It actually rewarded states and federal agencies for doing what they should have been doing all along, but obviously, that didn’t work.<\/p>\n

So the new bill only regurgitates old legislation that was never enforced. I want to know how the new legislation will do anything better than the old legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Atlantic reports that there’s new gun control legislation, known as the Fix NICS Act, coming … New gun control legislation; old propaganda in a new wrapper<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}