Originally Posted by
montana_charlie
The current NICS system has provisions for dealing with mental incompetence.
But, it is grossly underused.
The information is supposed to be submitted by the various states.
Of states that DO submit data, there is a group (can't remember how many but it's around 20) that has sent in (like) 44 submissions since the program started ... something like 4 states have sent in 1 submission ... and a number of states ignore the program entirely.
The NRA is fully aware of this underuse, and has the correct figures (that I am fuzzy on). That is their main argument against 'universal' checks.
Because it's obvious that the current system is not helping at all, there is really no logic in expanding it to include 40% more data that will ALSO not be used as intended.
The use that the 'new data' WILL be put to is what should concern all of us ... and I am speaking directly to those further up in this thread who said they are 'okay' with the universal checks.
Just because YOU personally wouldn't feel restricted ... perhaps because you don't expect to ever transfer a gun, anyway ... is not a good reason to support imposing that new infringement on the entire gun population.
That kind of selfish thinking got Zumbo kicked off of his magazine job and could earn a member a slot on somebody's ignore list.
(Not mine, though. I don't 'ignore' anybody. I want to know who among us is not really with us.)
CM