The bill may indeed have been written as you say. But if you read about what happened to the FOPA of 1986, it was amended at the very last second by Hughes, Democrat, New Jersey, in an attempt to kill the bill with a "poison pill". It was an overall good bill, so Ronald Reagan made the tough choice and signed it anyway. However, this time it could have very well gone the other way, making a not-so-great bill MUCH worse with some last minute amendment that the current POTUS would happily have signed.terryg wrote:That's fine. I can respect that position. Just come out and say NICS checks, all of them, are an infringement and they don't work. The system costs too much money and we need to abolish it.RAM4171 wrote:ThisNOT. ONE. MORE. INCH.
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But don't imply that the bill, as written, would create a registry or that it would require checks on transfers between friends and family. Just be honest about it and about what you don't like about it.
Dishonesty and manipulation are tactics that the other side uses. I think we are, or at least should be, above that.
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