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Originally Posted by wdmso
AND THESES Steps ARE A BAD THING ?? Please explain how any of theses are bad and restrict your 2A rights?
and please no talking points from your inbox
1All sellers must be licensed and conduct background checks, overturning current exemptions to some online and gun show sellers
2States must provide information on people disqualified due to mental illness or domestic violence
3FBI will increase workforce processing background checks by 50%, hiring more than 230 new examiners
4Congress will be asked to invest $500m (£339m) to improve access to mental healthcare
5The departments of defence, justice and homeland security will explore "smart gun technology" to improve gun safety
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The main policy would not have stopped any recent mass shootings.
225 years of precedent, destroyed–without any legislative due process.
The expansion of background checks is an affront to freedom in general, because it brings private sellers under the purview of the government regardless of whether those sellers sell one gun a year or 100. Americans have been selling guns privately since 1791–that’s 225 years–and now, with a swipe of his pen, Obama is saying a portion of those sales must be handled federally and conducted via background checks.
This is a not-so-subtle slide toward universal background checks–the kind of background checks they have in California and France–and it will eventually require a gun registry database in order to be enforceable–like the registry they have in France and the one they are building in California.
Sounds bad to me.
You can be denied a gun for purely financial reasons or if you are on Social Security.
Sounds horribly bad
It adds more burdens to gun dealers who are already following the law.
This doesn't affect me because we already have it in Mass.
Nobody wants smart guns, they are unreliable and not proven. Bad idea, very bad idea
so stick with the laws we have
If the individual states can legally add laws to have better background checks, then that is a whole other story