NRA: “The Truth About Background Checks.” Uh . . .

By Robert Farago

The NRA thinks the FBI’s background check system sucks. “The system is only as good as the records that are in it,” NRA Veep Wayne LaPierre asserts, before listing the mass shooter who passed NICS. “If you cast a net and the fish swim through the holes, you don’t need a bigger net. You need smaller holes.” Yes, well, the federal firearm background checs system is unconstitutional. And ineffective (by Mr. Lapierre’s own admission). And yet . . .

Mr. LaPierre goes on to take credit for establishing the instant background check system in the first place. “NRA supported it. NRA got the votes. And NRA got it passed.”

I understand why the NRA takes this line. They can’t very well say “Oops! We were wrong.” If nothing else, the majority of Americans support the security theater that is the background check system. So they – and the National Shooting Sports Foundation – are left arguing that the pols need to “fix NICS” rather than abandon it.

How does that work? How can you tout the background check system and then argue that it shouldn’t be expanded?

The NRA jefe ends his diatribe by mooting other ideas to …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns