Posted June 27, 2018 7:30 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith wants to make sure that federal dollars don’t go for state gun registries. (Photo: Hyde-Smith’s office)
A Mississippi Republican introduced a measure Tuesday that would make it illegal for the federal government to help bankroll state gun registries.
The Gun-owner Registration Information Protection, or GRIP Act, would extend the current prohibition on the use of federal funds for the maintenance of a full or partial gun registry to money allocated to state and tribal governments. Proposed by U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, she argues that work is already underway in a number of states to store personal information on gun owners and some of it may be supported by grant money from Washington.
“My bill would ensure no federal funds are used, either intentionally or not, for these misguided gun control efforts,” said Hyde-Smith in a statement. “This legislation is needed to ensure the federal government is not involved in exploiting the personal information of law-abiding people who own or purchase firearms legally.”
Filed as S.3135, the bill would help ensure that a myriad of federal grant programs made available to local and state agencies and governments wouldn’t be used to bolster efforts to store and track gun owner information. Currently,

Source: Guns.com

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