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Originally Posted by MattLarson
One one level, I agree.
The problem is that licensing requirement can, and have, been abused to prevent anyone from obtaining a license. See DC as an example.
Matt
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Why would it be any different than someone being prevented from getting a driver's license? If someone does not pass the required tests, they should not have a license, driver's or gun.
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Originally Posted by Traveler
I agree that giving guns to mentaly disabled folks is bad. Even more so than say criminals who are involved in white collar crimes.
However that is about the only form of restictions i would support.
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It makes perfect sense, yet the NRA is preventing the laws to be changed so that guns can be kept out of the hands of mental patients and criminals. The NRA doesn't like strict background checks and testing and training. That's all the Brady campaign wants to do. But the NRA stops them every time.
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Senate Bill Introduced to Close the Gun Show Loophole
Senators Frank Lautenberg and Jack Reed introduced legislation [S. 2577] that would strengthen the Brady criminal background check system by closing the gun show loophole.
The Brady Law requires criminal background checks of gun buyers at licensed dealers, but there is a loophole at gun shows. Convicted felons, domestic violence abusers, and those who are dangerously mentally ill can walk into any gun show and buy weapons from unlicensed sellers without being stopped, no questions asked.
Several families of the Virginia Tech massacre and Brady Campaign President, Paul Helmke, joined the Senators on Capitol Hill and urged Congress to pass this important bill that would help keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of dangerous people.
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Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
I can't understand why anyone would be against this.