Biden admin urges Congress to pass anti-gun bills criminalizing private sales and extending FBI hold

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American Military News by Liz George   March 09, 2021

Biden admin urges Congress to pass anti-gun bills criminalizing private sales and extending FBI holds

President Joe Biden’s administration released a statement Monday pressuring lawmakers in Congress to pass two gun control bills that would extend FBI holds and criminalize private gun sales. Both are up for a vote on Wednesday.

The administration is pushing for Congress to pass the Enhanced Background Checks Act of 2021 and the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021, which were both introduced in the House last month.

“Gun violence is a public health crisis. Every day, gun violence – community violence, domestic violence, suicides, and mass shootings – takes American lives and forever alters many more. Last year, we saw record levels of homicides in cities throughout our country, violence that disproportionately impacts Black and Latino communities,” the statement read.

Rep. Mike Thompson’s Bipartisan Background Checks Act would criminalize private gun sales, making even transactions between family members illegal. Instead, a gun-owner seeking to sell his firearm would first require government permission.

More: https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/03/biden-admin-urges-congress-to-pass-anti-gun-bills-criminalizing-private-sales-and-extending-fbi-holds/

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Clyburn Background Check Bill Would Flip Burden of Proof, Allow FBI to Indefinitely Delay Firearm Transactions by Inaction

NRA-ILA 3/8/2021

https://www.nraila.org/articles/20210308/clyburn-background-check-bill-would-flip-burden-of-proof-allow-fbi-to-indefinitely-delay-firearm-transactions-by-inaction

Should the government be able to deny your right to obtain a firearm, simply by failing to complete a mandatory background check? Anti-gun Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) apparently thinks so.

On March 1st, Clyburn introduced H.R. 1446, the so-called “Enhanced Background Checks Act.” Under the bill, the FBI could indefinitely block federally licensed dealers (FFLs) from transferring firearms, simply by failing to provide decisions on the background checks FFLs are required to run on their customers.

Currently, federal law requires FFLs to run a background check on any unlicensed customer who wants a firearm through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), administered by the FBI. The purpose of the background check is to determine if the intended recipient of the firearm falls into any of the statutorily defined categories of “prohibited persons.” If the intended recipient is not a prohibited person, the FBI has no discretion to deny the transaction for other reasons.

To initiate a background check, the intended recipient fills out a government form (known as a Form 4473) that contains identifying information about the individual. The intended recipient must also make a series of legally binding declarations on the Form 4473, attesting that he or she is not in any of the prohibited categories. The FFL then uses the identifying information to run the NICS check.

The federal background check law originally imposed a five-day waiting period for law enforcement authorities to comb through their records to determine whether an intended firearm recipient was a prohibited person. The law specified, however, that the waiting period would be phased out once the government established a computerized system for an instant, point-of-sale background check.

That system (NICS) came online in 1998. Since then, the government has poured millions and millions of dollars into ensuring the system is complete, reliable, accurate, and truly “instant.” Needless to say, computer technology has only become more sophisticated, reliable, and common during this time.

More at link.

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More Racist, Sexist and Ageist policies for the "party of the people".

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More Racist, Sexist and Ageist policies for the "party of the people".

They never said which "people" they meant the Party was for, but now we know, don't we?

They were talking about themselves: Ruling Class coastal elites who intend to stay in power forever.

And the plan by which they intend to do so is now rather evident: by creating chaos.

Open our national borders to millions of new government dependents with instant welfare privileges and voting "rights".

Employ broadcast and social media to shame, silence and cancel opponents, while creating false narratives about America's history and its values that are designed to create a state of permanent social conflict between designated classes of "oppressors" and "victims". 
 
Create a state of perpetual panic by first generating unfathomable levels of public debt, leading inexorably to financial catastrophe, and by frightening the masses with fabulous narratives about an endangered climate and a world pandemic with no end in sight. 

Pass laws to prevent normal Americans from running their businesses the way the want, living the way they want to, and denying their right to armed self-defense.

Subvert and ultimately end American sovereignty in favor of global governance by a ruling elite class of bureaucrats and corporate-government leaders.

Given all of the forgoing, an opposition "party" worthy of the name would be a welcome development. 

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Didn't the  National Socialists do the same thing in Germany back in 1933?