NRA Explore by Frank Miniter 3/8/2019
Last week was a heady time for House Democrats. The mainstream media applauded two gun-control bills Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives pushed through. (You can read about the bills here.)In their pursuit for headlines claiming they’re doing something—anything about gun violence—Democrats were shocked when a Republican amendment to H.R. 8 passed.
The Washington Post revealed a lot more than a Freudian slip ever could when it referred to the amendment this way: “GOP leaders used one of the few tools available to the House minority to amend a Democratic gun-control bill, adding a provision that would require notification to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when illegal immigrants try to buy a gun.†The Post then called this amendment “an embarrassing setback for party leaders who had carefully screened amendments to keep GOP fingerprints off a high-profile bill.â€
So telling the FBI, which runs the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), to inform ICE when an illegal alien tries to buy a gun is “embarrassing†to Democrats, says the Democrat’s leading rag, The Washington Post.
These gun-control bills were sent to the Senate where it’s very unlikely they’ll be voted on—which is why these bills really are about positioning for the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, the Senate did do something last week the mainstream media won’t make much of a fuss over, but will have a consequential impact on the NICS.
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) sent a public letter to Attorney General William Barr reminding him that the Fix NICS Act—signed by President Donald J. Trump on March 23, 2018—requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to do a lot to ensure that states and federal agencies are giving records of prohibited persons to the NICS.
More:
https://www.americas1stfreedom.org/articles/2019/3/8/what-house-democrats-don-t-want-you-to-know/
