Background Checks in Action

The narrative:

Guy who makes lots of mistakes in his youth turns his life around and goes straight.  Family, honest employment helping people, the works.

But he makes several other mistakes.  Big ones.

He changed his name to make things easier to move on, get a good job, not get labelled.  Fair enough.  But under his new name he is still a prohibited person.... and he went and got a gun. 

How, you ask, can he do this with all of the licensing and background checks in place? 

Easy... The system screwed up.... again and again.

Background check #1: FOID card. Mandatory for any purchase/possession of a firearm or ammo in the state.   30+ days for the state to conduct a background check. Falsifying information on the application is a class 2 Felony.  (question 2)

Background check #2: Firearm purchase.  NICS w/ the form 4473. State mandated 72 hr waiting period for handguns.  Falsifying information on the form is a felony (question 11c) (assuming he purchased the weapon legally that is)

Background check #3: CCW. 90 days for background check w/ fingerprints, 120 days w/o fingerprints.  3-4 months for a simple court records search. 

Him merely having the gun was a felony under any circumstance.

So two or three extended time background checks and waiting periods all failed.

Why?

But lets do it again... only harder.

Big Victories: Compare and Contrast.

From the Brady Campaign to Maintain Relevancy:

And Republican Congressman David Jolly of Florida officially co-sponsored a bill to expand Brady background checks. Once a lapdog doing the bidding of the corporate gun lobby, today Rep. Jolly is in our corner. Now THAT’S progress!

A Co-Sponsor on a bill HR1217 which hasn't moved in 6 months.  I'm sure his constituents will have something to say about it.

Then there's Missouri passing Constitutional Carry.

Senate Bill 656 will allow anyone legally allowed to possess a firearm to carry that firearm, while also maintaining the current permit system. In addition, the bill:

Expands Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground protections

Adds additional permit options to include extended and lifetime permits

Specifies that with the exception of credit card fees, no additional fee beyond $100 may be charged to process concealed carry permits

Allows members of the military extra time to renew their permits

They'll say anything to try and keep the lights on.

George Not Getting It

So George Takei, who spent time in the Internment Camps for Japanese during WWII, starts an anti-gun group (w/ a closed membership), and hires as its 'Director' one Ladd Everitt, who previously stated his endorsement for the gov't rounding up citizens and putting them in internment camps. 

“Commenter: So the Govt rounding up citizens based on Religion or Ethnic ID would not warrant armed resistance if courts bless as constitutional.

CSGV: Correct.

I'm not too worried though.  He ran the failed DC MMM, he was Comm Dir. of a group that operated out a bar loft (and below a fortune teller) for nearly a decade with technology that 80's space guy would have been envious of and who's major accomplishment was paying FB to increase the 'likes' on their page.