The NSSF had a banner on their website about Universal Background Checks. I doubt I need to elaborate on what those are for anyone reading this. But I clicked on the banner, https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/factsheets/universal-background-checks/
I find it strange that the NSSF is against Universal Background Checks. Why? Because of their “Fix NICS” efforts. Isn’t it all the same thing? The government has paper work and searchable digital databases and lists on everyone, for NICS. Then the 4473, then, any state permits to purchase which may be needed in your locale, in Minnesota we need one for pistols and “scary assault weapons”. Do you have a permit to carry? Well if you do, you’re on ANOTHER list!
NSSF argues in favor of NICS, yet is against Universal Background Checks because it’d put a burden on retailers…
So-called “universal background checks” not only on private party firearm transactions impose heavy regulatory burdens on federally licensed retailers, add significant costs, pose logistical nightmares, lead to unacceptable delays in processing NICS checks, and open retailers to unprecedented liability exposure.
What do NICS and 4473’s already do to gun stores? Does anyone remember the Biden ZERO Tolerance Policy which shut down countless gun stores for literally not crossing a ‘t’ or not dotting an ‘i’? The gun store I go to, will not begin to start a NICS check until the filled out 4473 has been DOUBLE CHECKED by a SECOND employee. Doesn’t that sound like a burden? When the gun store’s busy, and they make a customer wait, till someone can double check it, customers have to wait… Burden? Duh. Plus how many more employees must a gun store hire, to deal with mere federal paper work as opposed to dealing with customers and product? INFRINGEMENT!
The NSSF says Universal Background Checks are illegal… True…
Universal background checks are unenforceable without mandatory registration – which is illegal under the 1986 Gun Control Act and 1993 Brady Act.
But, we all know a national gun registry does in fact exist, that’s old news. https://www.ammoland.com/2022/01/atf-keeping-920-million-searchable-firearm-records/
One would have to be an idiot to think that making a national gun registry illegal, while at the same time requiring 4473’s and later NICS checks, that somebody, somewhere, wouldn’t start making a list of who’s buying guns, and what kind of guns. After all, when’s the government followed the law, let alone the 2nd Amendment?
And to have a background check, doesn’t one have to have a database anyhow? From https://www.gunowners.org/nws9402/…
As the noted writer and attorney David Kopel has written in an Independence Institute monograph on waiting periods:
Significantly, the instant check is subject to the same problem of creating a gun and gun-owner registration system as is a waiting period. As the [1989 Justice Department] Task Force observes, “Any system that requires a criminal history record check prior to purchase of a firearm creates the potential for the automated tracking of individuals who seek to purchase firearms.”
Yeah, the NRA supported Brady/NICS/Assault Weapons Ban,
Yet the U.S. Senate has passed a ban on certain rifles and shotguns, a ban on magazines with over 10 rounds capacity, and agreed to a waiting period. All this in the same month as those elections. How did this happen?
To the astonishment of most experts, Senator Dole and his fellow Republicans agreed to hurry up procedures for considering all the gun control bills. Opportunities to filibuster the legislation were mostly avoided. A number of killer amendments could have been added to make the filibuster work. For example, anti-gunners could have been forced to vote first on imposing the death penalty in the District of Columbia before they could vote for the Brady bill. It is entirely possible that the Senate would still be stalemated at that point, given such a choice.
This strategy had worked well in past years so GOA asked a few Senate offices to have their Senators filibuster the bill. But GOA was told by one Senate staffer, who wishes to remain anonymous, that “The NRA asked us not to filibuster.” We were told that Senator Dole’s vote count was the basis for this decision.
It should be noted that when Senator Dole and the GOP put principles over fear of being accused of gridlock, they successfully filibustered the President’s economic stimulus package earlier in the year. Unfortunately, they did not hold the Second Amendment in as high as regard.
Back to the NSSF why do they support NICS but not Universal Background Checks? They love NICS so much, they helped lobby for the Fix NICS Act… They love NICS so much they have a website DEVOTED to it… https://fixnics.org/ Look,
A background check is only as good as the records in the database. The firearms industry’s ongoing FixNICS campaign was launched in 2013 to encourage states to report to NICS all records that establish someone is prohibited from owning a firearm under current law.
More records. The gun lobby wants Uncle Sam to have MORE records! Remember who the people are who run NSSF, https://www.nssf.org/about-us/nssf-board-of-governors/
Clearly, given the amount of companies represented with massive “the only ones” contracts, both here and around the world, they don’t want to upset Uncle Sam too much.
But I think I found the answer as to why NSSF thinks Universal Background Checks are bad yet NICS is good, https://www.nssf.org/government-relations/factsheets/universal-background-checks/…
FFLs face liability if a private sale is conducted for modified guns with unsafe changes from factory configuration.
Bingo, gun stores would riot, and riot AGAINST NSSF if they supported Universal Background Checks. It’s always about the money isn’t it? To hell with the 2nd Amendment and the “shall not be infringed” part. Obviously all arms laws are un-constitutional, obviously all government lists regarding arms, and those who own and buy them are un-constitutional. But the companies who run NSSF don’t give a damn about the 2nd Amendment, they’ve got way too much money on the line with Uncle Sam, remember, Browning (FN, military/police small arms supplier), Hornady (Federal Bureau Of Intimidation 9mm ammo supplier), Daniel Defense (MASSIVE military/police contracts) Olin (Winchester, US military ammo supplier), Glock (Ugh, my favorite’s a long time 2A traitor, police/fed contracts), Benelli (Beretta, military/police small arms supplier), Mossberg (Military/police small arms supplier), Smith And Wesson (Police small arms supplier) and Ruger (Remember old Bill, was the originator of the “high capacity” magazine ban idea), Silencer Central(How many cops/soldiers use suppressors? Just a thought.), Leupold & Stevens (Ever see a cop without a red dot or LPVO on his AR15? Lots have red dots on their pistols. Then snipers, both police and military use scopes too.), and The Kinetic Group formerly Vista Outdoors, who owns Federal, Remington Ammo, CCI and Speer(Speer’s the preferred ammo of “the only ones”, -and who owns The Kinetic Group? https://czechoslovakgroup.com/en).
And don’t forget, NSSF’s Vice President of Government Relations, Patrick Rothwell, was a paid mentor of the Republicant Turtle Senator Mitch McConnell.
When the anti’s say to beware of the “gun lobby”, I’m starting to think they’re right, albeit for the wrong reasons. The “gun lobby” does as much to support infringing on our Second Amendment rights as the obvious anti’s do. This must change.
Equip, train, pray and never disarm.
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