Former top military advisers urge Congress to pass gun background checks bill

[Elderberry]

Roll Call by Griffin Connolly 2/21/2019

Ex-leaders are part of veterans coalition organized by Giffords’ group

More than a dozen retired top military commanders, leaders and advisers, whose careers spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations, are throwing their weight behind a bill in the House and Senate that would require universal background checks for all U.S. gun sales.

In a letter Thursday, 13 former top military advisers and combat leaders urged congressional leaders in both parties to pass the bill, known in the House as HR 8, which targets private gun sales that don’t require background checks under current federal law.

“A prohibited person with dangerous intent can easily buy a gun over the internet or in a parking lot with no questions asked,” the military advisers wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer.“For those of us with extensive firearms training, who have seen the damage inflicted by a powerful weapon in the wrong hands, this is simply unfathomable,” they wrote.

The list of heavyweight signatories includes former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden, who served under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan; and former Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, who served under both Bush and Obama.

The former leaders are part of a veterans coalition formed by the gun safety group founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who left Congress in 2012, a year after surviving a shooting assassination attempt at a constituent event that left six people dead.

More: https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/former-top-military-advisers-urge-support-for-gun-background-checks-bill

[sneakypete]

Roll Call by Griffin Connolly 2/21/2019

Ex-leaders are part of veterans coalition organized by Giffords’ group

More than a dozen retired top military commanders, leaders and advisers, whose careers spanned both Republican and Democratic administrations, are throwing their weight behind a bill in the House and Senate that would require universal background checks for all U.S. gun sales.

In a letter Thursday, 13 former top military advisers and combat leaders urged congressional leaders in both parties to pass the bill, known in the House as HR 8, which targets private gun sales that don’t require background checks under current federal law.

“A prohibited person with dangerous intent can easily buy a gun over the internet or in a parking lot with no questions asked,” the military advisers wrote to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer.“For those of us with extensive firearms training, who have seen the damage inflicted by a powerful weapon in the wrong hands, this is simply unfathomable,” they wrote.

The list of heavyweight signatories includes former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden, who served under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan; and former Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, who served under both Bush and Obama.

The former leaders are part of a veterans coalition formed by the gun safety group founded by former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who left Congress in 2012, a year after surviving a shooting assassination attempt at a constituent event that left six people dead.

More: https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/former-top-military-advisers-urge-support-for-gun-background-checks-bill

@Elderberry

Uhhhh,you DO know military members aren't protected by the Bill of Rights,right? They come under the Universal Code of Military Justice. Which means they don't have the rights they were born with.

The people who gravitate to the upper levels of the military tend to be control freaks who think "deys jist too much ob that "freedom stuff" running round loose out dere,and we gotta stop it!

[Fishrrman]

The "heavyweight" advisors:
"The list of heavyweight signatories includes former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden, who served under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama; Stanley McChrystal, Obama’s top commander in Afghanistan; and former Coast Guard Commandant Thad Allen, who served under both Bush and Obama."

That figgers...

[Smokin Joe]

After living for years under the UCMJ, they want to infringe on the very Constitution they were sworn to uphold.

Lest we forget, Benedict Arnold was a general, too.

This creates so many insane possibilities for violation, that handing your wife a gun at the range could get you in trouble. (illegal transfer)

This will not stop prohibited persons from purchasing (stolen) or stealing firearms, it will only infringe on the law abiding gun owner, and create traps by which they can be prosecuted.