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- Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:14 pm
- Forum: Federal
- Topic: Lautenberg at it again
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Re: Lautenberg at it again
I finally got a response from Sen. Hutchison. It was a canned response that thanked me for contacting her office about my position on gun control, reiterating her support for the Second Amendment. I would have thought that getting a response after this much time, someone would have taken the time to read what I had written and address it directly. I would have accepted the canned response if it came within a day or two, but there is no excuse I can think of for taking this long for a form letter e-mail.
- Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:16 am
- Forum: Federal
- Topic: Lautenberg at it again
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Lautenberg at it again
Well, Sen. Lautenberg is trying again for more gun laws. This time he wants to stop people on the terrorist watch list from buying guns. My problem is that these people are all still innocent of any crime (not proven in court, just suspected of something if that).
Lautenberg is using the latest GAO report as support. The report shows 963 people on the terrorist watch list have bought guns since 2004. Of course, my first question was how do they know this. The report says they used FBI NICS data for the gun purchase side of it.
So, I just sent an e-mail to Sen. Hutchison asking her to look into it. This is what I wrote her;
Lautenberg is using the latest GAO report as support. The report shows 963 people on the terrorist watch list have bought guns since 2004. Of course, my first question was how do they know this. The report says they used FBI NICS data for the gun purchase side of it.
So, I just sent an e-mail to Sen. Hutchison asking her to look into it. This is what I wrote her;
I figured someone else might want to also write to other politicians about this.I was just reading the GAO report to Senator Lautenberg on how people on the terrorist watch lists are able to buy guns. The report mentions that 963 people on the watch lists were allowed to purchase guns between Feb 2004 and Feb 2009.
As part of the introduction to the report, the answer was given to one of my most critical questions. How did they know this information? The report states they obtained the information on the background checks from the FBI.
The FBI gets the information on every purchase or attempted purchase of a firearm from a licensed dealer from the NICS system of instant background checks. It is my understanding that the current law on the NICS system requires all of these records to be destroyed after no more than 24 hours.
If the FBI was obeying this law, how did they give information that is five years old, or even five days old, to the GAO investigators? I would really appreciate if you could have someone check into whether or not the FBI is actually obeying the law or has been breaking it for the past five years.