The “You’re Crazy” Loophole
Clayton Cramer looks at the bill to close it (HR 297):
As I said on a radio broadcast this morning, I support the concept of improving state reporting of disqualifying mental illness problems, but the devil is in the details. So I have been reading over HR 297, and I am having trouble finding where “this bill would allow the FBI to obtain massive amounts of information” about individuals. The bill doesn’t even require states to provide information–it only sets standards for how much money the state can receive for improving its reporting to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System based on its level of data that it reports.
