Dear Thirdpower,
Representative Mike Castle (R-DE) has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 96) that will require Brady background checks at gun shows, and stop criminals and other dangerous people from exploiting these events to buy and sell guns.
We need you to contact your U.S. Representative today and urge him/her to cosponsor this important bill that would close the gun show loophole. We want the law to be: "no background check, no gun, no excuses!"
We need to make it harder for convicted felons, the dangerously mentally ill, and others like them to get guns. One simple solution is closing the gun show loophole.Note they've dropped the references to Cho. Yep. Time to contact my Rep and ask him NOT to co-sponsor this legislation.
Here's the text. As of right now, it only has 9 co-sponsors, Castle's bit on it, and the NRA sheet.
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So riddle me this. How is the event organizer suppossed to notify the AG of non-FFl holders who plan on attending the show?
`(38) Special Firearms Event Vendor- The term `special firearms event vendor' means any person who is not required to be licensed under section 923 and who exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges 1 or more firearms at a special firearms event, regardless of whether or not the person arranges with the special firearms event promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange 1 or more firearms.'.
`(A) not later than 30 days before the commencement of the special firearms event, notifies the Attorney General, in writing, of the date, time, duration, and location of the special firearms event, and the special firearms event vendors planning to participate;
Never mind, it does cover that...
`(B) before the commencement of the special firearms event, or in the case of a vendor who arrives after the commencement of the event, upon the arrival of the vendor, verifies the identity of each special firearms event vendor participating in the special firearms event by examining a valid identification document (as defined in section 1028(d)(3)) of the vendor containing a photograph of the vendor;
`(C) before the commencement of the special firearms event, or in the case of a vendor who arrives after the commencement of the event, upon the arrival of the vendor, requires each special firearms event vendor to sign--
`(i) a ledger with identifying information concerning the vendor; and
`(ii) a notice advising the vendor of the obligations of the vendor under this chapter;
Still, this is bad ju-ju.
I'm surprised they aren't talking about S. 2577--it seems to have more momentum behind it.
Allegedly it's even worse than 2577. I haven't trolled enough through both of them to get all the differences yet.
Bloomberg is using McCain in an ad promoting anti gun show legislation.
http://akeyboardanda45.blogspot.com/2008/05/closing-gun-show-loophole.html
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