Rep.
Thomas Massie (R-KY) is warning that House Leadership plans to merge
Obama-style gun control with national reciprocity for concealed carry.
This
news comes just days before Rep. Richard Hudson’s (R-NC) national
reciprocity legislation, H.R. 38, is supposed to go the House floor for
a vote.
Massie
explains that the Obama-style gun controls are contained in the
“fix-NICS” legislation, the very legislation that House Leadership
“plans to merge” with H.R. 38. He used a
Facebook post to explain the “fix-NICS” legislation
would allow “agencies, not just courts, to adjudicate your second
amendment rights.”
He expounds:
"Yet
he believes it is a foolish attempt to gain the support of Senators
like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) ..."
[“Fix-NICS”]
encourages administrative agencies, not the courts, to submit more
names to a national database that will determine whether you can or
can’t obtain a firearm. When President Obama couldn’t get Congress to
pass gun control, he implemented a strategy of compelling, through
administrative rules, the Veterans Administration and the Social
Security Administration to submit lists of veterans and seniors, many
of whom never had a day in court, to be included in the NICS database
of people prohibited from owning a firearm. Only a state court, a
federal (article III) court, or a military court, should ever be able
to suspend your rights for any significant period of time.
Massie
does not name names, but presumes that some are seeking to add the gun
control legislation as a way of “to ensure reciprocity will pass in the
Senate.” Yet he believes it is a foolish attempt to gain the support of
Senators like Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), who
will not support national reciprocity legislation “even if it contains
the fix-NICS legislation they support for expanding the background
check database.”
Massie
observed, “If our House leadership insists on bringing the flawed
fix-NICS bill to the floor, they shouldn’t play games. We should vote
separately on HR 38, the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Bill, and HR 4477,
the fix-NICS bill. And we should be given enough time to amend the
fix-NICS bill, because it needs to be fixed, if not axed.”
Via Skoonj
Dana Loesch tells us that the Fix-NICS bill isn't the nasty Obama-style gun control the article says. There is one of those, but this is actually a fix for problems with the NICS system.
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ReplyDeleteI'd sure like to think you're right, that it really is a NICS system repair- but.
*Feinstein* and *Schumer* are involved.
Those names should strike fear into any American, because the Constitution means nothing to them, and they have an agenda: they want to "fix" NICS all right.
They want to fix it so that no one can legally buy a gun, any gun, anywhere or anytime, and they work indefatigueably toward that end. Trust them? Not on your life!
Also- I think a good argument could be made that the entire NICS system is unConstitutional and has done nothing of value even if it is legal. All it seems to do is make life difficult for gun sellers and buyers, add additional cost to buying a gun, and (of course!) lend itself to establishing an illegal gun database. In short, I have no use for it. I'd rather go back to our system pre-1968 (ideally, pre-1934,) but I realize that won't happen overnight.
Eskyman, I admit to being confused. Hawkins, in Breitbart, has a detailed article which was highly negative about Fix-NICS. And if I'm confused, it must be a bad deal.
ReplyDeleteNRA-ILA has released an article saying Rep. Massie's piece contains several points of mis-information, which they correct. Tell you what, I need to read ALL this material carefully. I don't want to lend my force to the wrong side.
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