Gun Control Refresher

The lamestream media told you:

The NICS Improvement Act, also known as the “Stop Nut Jobs From Buying Guns At Retail” bill, is the first federal gun-control law in many years, according to leading news outlets everywhere.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

For lists of more than 100 changes to federal gun-control laws in the past five years, visit this link.

Both the Bradys and the NRA claimed victory in this bill’s passage. Pro-rights lawyers rewrote the entire bill before enactment, changing serious infringements into legitimate bans on gun sales to certifiable mental cases. This infuriated the antis and was generally praised by pro-rights advocates. The unedited Brady version would have allowed arbitrary denial of rights to anyone, by “determination” by unnamed authorities, with no appeal process.

Many prior gun-control laws enacted to protect gun rights, which we can expect to be “re-managed” under an anti-rights administration or Congress, included:

--Judiciary may not tax or add fees to the Brady NICS check;

--NICS must destroy certain records related to retail gun sales;

--Federal officers get limited funding for firearm competitions and awards;

--Reiteration of ban on centralizing certain firearms records;

--No changes allowed to Curios or Relics list;

--Continuing denial of relief for people with federal firearms disability except for corporations;

--No electronic retrieval allowed for out-of-business dealer records;

--Safeguards on using dealer records in “fishing-expedition” police work;

--$45 million for prosecutions to reduce gun violence;

--A renewed ban against advocating or promoting gun control by the Centers for Disease Control

--Expiration of arbitrary “named-weapons” ban, convincingly but inaccurately labeled “assault” weapons (assault is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware).

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