TBI background checks update
I mentioned before a bill to end TBI checks (and save me $10 each time I buy a gun). Well, that fine news organization Volunteer TV is trying to scare folks over the bill:
Lawmakers in the State House are considering a bill that would get rid of the $10 fee you now pay for a background check when you buy a gun.
But could that move make you less safe?
Volunteer TV’s Stephen McLamb takes looks at both sides of the argument.
The legislation would hand over duties for background checks from the TBI to the FBI. Some say the federal check would leave out many state records and give approval for guns to people who wouldn’t get them currently.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation currently does all gun background checks in the state, in most instances with little wait for customers wanting to buy a gun.
Why would it make you less safe? Because:
Crisp says one of the biggest problems is the fbi’s ability to check state records.
“The databases that the TBI has in regard to orders of protections and restraining orders and things like that it’s my understanding they check a few more databases than what the FBI would be checking,” says Chief Crisp.
Did it occur to anyone that maybe the FBI databases had more info than the state? It’s possible. And remember where the article said:
Volunteer TV’s Stephen McLamb takes looks at both sides of the argument.
Well, I’ve read the article twice and only see one side of the issue.
March 20th, 2006 at 11:34 am
But, they did cover both sides: anti-gun and rabidly anti-gun.
March 20th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
The FBI honers the constitution Ware the TBI dose not! I am a 40 year old medical professional eight years ago I was attached to a SWAT team in Jefferson Co. MO. I have worked shoulder to shoulder with law enforcement for the last sixteen years. I am now and for the better part of my life have been a productive and active member of society. When I applied to perches a hand gun after being threatened with my life from a patient family member the TBI dug up a felony conviction when I was fifteen years old making it public knowledge and refusing my perches. In this same year my right to vote was denied. When a person turn-es 18 there juvenile records are sealed for a resion even with out asking and the only agency that is supposed to have access to this file is the FBI however it is not to be made public, at least that is the way it was explained to me when I turned eighteen. lawyers wouldn’t help for less than $6,000.00 dollars. after arguing with TBI for months I have assured that things have been made right I intend to test this out this week. I was looking for the name of the councilor/Senator that was against TBI to tell him my story.