Doing the Right Thing

Although I wish this particular piece of legislation was already a "done deal", it's progress is still very good news, and an excellent way to close out the year.

Nice to see the Republicans striving to do right on this one. The whole story is from the Washington Post, but I'd like to emphasize a few key points:

House Republicans have included language in the omnibus appropriations bill to prevent federal law enforcement from maintaining a 90-day database on gun buyers, angering gun control advocates but moving closer to the original intent of the law.

Actually, the Original Intent of the Founders was that "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed". Okay, but I'll gladly accept any law which takes us back towards that ideal, rather than further towards the left's dream of a placid, obiedient, disarmed populace.

The House passed an amendment to the omnibus bill earlier this month that would require all records from mandatory background checks on potential gun owners authorized by the Brady bill to be destroyed within 24 hours of a legal purchase. The FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) currently maintain the files for 90 days.

Actually, it's the Brady bill which needs to be destroyed. Right along with the misnamed Assault Weapons Ban, and in my opinion the GCA of '68 as well.

"Congress isn't helping law enforcement when they pass something like this," said Sarah Brady, chairman of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Last week, we marked the 10th anniversary of the Brady law, and this week the House wants to pass legislation that limits law enforcement's ability to stop criminals from getting guns."

Poor Sarah. She' never understand...she refuses to understand, that criminals care not one whit about bans, background checks or any other legal nicetey when it comes to getting their mitts on guns. They buy stolen guns or will steal 'em from law abiding citizens, but they're not standing at the gun-store counter filling out forms which would send 'em right back to prison. Where of course, they belong.

Chris Cox, chief lobbyist for the National Rifle Association, said the language to move to a 24-hour window is a shift to the original intent of the law.

Saying "the federal government has no right to build a database on law-abiding gun owners," the NRA spokesman said the rule of retaining records for 90 days was not part of the Brady legislation, but was a Clinton administration executive policy. a typical Clintonian abuse of power.

Just the fact that Clinton did this with his gross misuse of the power of the Executive Order is cause enough to eliminate it. The 90 practice clearly has no legislative standing, whatsoever. Frankly, aside from the media's bowing and scraping to her, neither does Sarah Brady.

Critics of the proposed 24-hour rule say it would prevent the ATF from requiring gun dealers to take regular inventories of their firearms, block public scrutiny of corrupt gun dealers by preventing the release of crime gun traces and multiple gun sale data, and require that ATF disavow the conclusions of numerous studies it has published.

Look, any report published by Friends of Bill type liberal, anti-gun (except for them and their bodyguards) weenies is aleady self-defining as tripe. Of course, the ATF should disavow those "conlusions of numerous studies" written by Clinton-era minions.

Mr. Hamm said the Justice Department under Attorney General John Ashcroft proposed the rule change for background checks more than a year ago but faced "serious objections" from federal law enforcement officials.

"Congress doesn't need to be stepping in and doing something that the executive branch looked at and decided not to do," Mr. Hamm said.

Yes asshole, they DO need to step in. It's called a system of checks and balances, in case you forgot you communist mutherfucker! If the current Executive Branch lacks the cojones to undo one of hundreds of Clinton's Dick-tatorial edicts, then HELL YES, I want the legistlature to take up the slack.

If they don't, We The People one day shall. Mr. Hamm won't like the outcome of that one little tiny bit. But then, the Redcoats didn't like 1776, either.

Read the whole article, and call write your Senators. Start your New Years right by making a stand for freedom.