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In reply to the discussion: Transcript from my show, how to move the needle on Gun Control [View all]farminator3000
(2,117 posts)guns are gonna get more expensive, because their are WAY TOO MANY!
more laws, too. the people who have all the guns are a MINORITY.
the NRA is to blame for any problems with previous laws, any sane human being knows that.
i've known it for 35 years, wake up.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/22/opinion/blow-guns-smoke-and-mirrors.html
about BATF-
One immediate task for Vice President Joseph Biden Jr., who is heading the new White House group on gun violence that will report recommendations in January, is to focus on dismantling the senseless obstacles impeding the bureaus day-to-day functioning.
The bureau which should have a lead role in protecting the nation from gun crimes has been severely hindered by an array of N.R.A.-backed legislative restrictions. For example, a 1986 law prohibits A.T.F. agents from making more than one unannounced inspection a year on a gun dealer, a rule that serves no purpose other than protecting unscrupulous dealers. (As it is, a lack of agents means that a gun shop can go years between inspections.)
The same law makes it extremely difficult to pull the licenses of rogue gun dealers. The government must show not just that the conduct was intentional but that the violator knew it was illegal.
Language included in every A.T.F. appropriations bill since 1979 has prohibited the bureau from putting gun sales records into a central computer database. That means workers at the bureaus tracing center often must call gun makers and sellers and go through paper files to identify the buyer of a gun linked to a crime.
Finally, the so-called Tiahrt amendments, attached to federal spending bills, require the federal government to destroy the background check records of gun buyers within 24 hours of approval. That makes it very hard to identify dealers who falsify sales records.