The anti-gun lobby is ratcheting up their fight. One of the things on their wish list is to get rid of the Tiahrt amendment. So, they’re blaming the Fort Hood shooting on that amendment:

During the Clinton administration, the FBI had access to records of gun background checks for up to 180 days. But in 2003, Congress began requiring that the records be destroyed within 24 hours. This requirement, one of the many restrictions on gun data sponsored by Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), meant that Hasan’s investigators were blocked from searching records to determine whether he or other terrorist suspects had purchased guns. When Hasan walked out of Guns Galore in Killeen, Tex., the FBI had only 24 hours to recognize and flag the record — and then it was gone, forever.

Putting aside the gun issues, they say Hasan’s investigators were blocked? The same investigators who knew he was talking about Jihad with some clerics? And who knew that he was posting his little Johnny Jihad Fantasies on the internets? And said he was mostly harmless? Those investigators?

But on to the gun issues, destroying the records has been required since the Brady bill passed because congress doesn’t like the idea of a gun registry. And I don’t think the FBI is authorized to go looking through gun purchase records unless they’re tracing a firearm. Of course, the real reason Tiahrt is a threat to anti-gunners is because they want a database of the stuff to help in lawsuits against gun makers.

More from SIH.

And this is awesome:

You would think that someone who can spend $200 million of his own money to get elected mayor of New York City three times could afford copies of the U.S. Code and the Constitution. Not only does federal law stipulate the specific grounds for denying a person the right to arms, the Fourteenth Amendment states that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law.

Posted in uncategorized on November 30th, 2009 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |