Posted August 11, 2019 10:37 am by Comments

By John Farnam

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Opinion

“Meaningful” Background Checks? Whatever That Means?

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- This week DJT (Donlad J Trump), responding to last weekend’s shooting incidences in El Paso, TX, and Dayton, OH, called for “meaningful background checks” to be imposed at a federal level upon any American citizen who wants to make a retail purchase of a firearm.

As I listened, it struck me:

“Wait! We already have an instant background check system in place. Our NICS System has been in mandatory operation, nationwide, since 1998!”

Is our current NICS System suddenly “meaningless?”

Imitating his Democrat/socialist opponents, DJT never got specific, never told us exactly what he means by “meaningful” background checks.

Our current NICS System performs a thorough records check of a perspective gun purchaser’s criminal history.

Most felonies, particularly violent felonies, will instantly bounce the application, as will current arrest warrants and protection orders, and documented mental-health deficiencies.

We’re now left to wonder what additional information about an individual is to be added to the NICS-check, in an effort to make it “meaningful!”

Will we now include rumors, speculation, and supposition?

  • Will social-media presentations/opinions arbitrarily deemed “inappropriate,” (ie: politically incorrect) now bounce my application?
  • Will letters-to-the-editor of local newspapers containing “divergent” opinions, similarly veto my chance to be …Read the Rest

    Source:: AmmoLand

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