Does anybody on the anti-gun side ever tell the truth about anything??? Pat Toomey (spit!) who wants to restart his Manchin-Toomey-Schumer-Gottlieb legislation says:
“The only thing that our legislation would have done is it would have said if you purchase a gun through a commercial vendor, whether it’s at a gun show or at a dealership or online, you have to go through an instantaneous background check … to determine if you have been adjudicated as mentally unfit because of a mental incapacity that makes you dangerous or if you’re a convicted criminal,” Toomey said. “And we all agree that people in those two categories shouldn’t have guns, and that’s not a controversial idea. Unfortunately, it became controversial to establish a procedure to broaden the background checks. I’m very disappointed. I think some people mischaracterized the legislation, and that led others to oppose it.”
So the only thing it would have done was to uselessly repeat a portion of existing federal law? And those who thought otherwise were either mischaracterizing it or duped?
These people are shameless. Whether they have R’s or D’s after their names. Shameless.
But that they always opt for lies is an encouraging sign of just how desperate they are.
Why tell the truth when a lie will suffice? Politicians are not interested in the truth except as a tool to beat their opponents down.
For those with short memories, M-T-G-S would have instituted universal preemptively-prove-your-innocence and expanded the NICS database of prohibited persons. In “return” we would have gotten the wonderfully Gottliebian “compromises” of… well, let me quote myself from a couple years back:
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From 4/16/2013:
Short form: The Toomey-Manchin amendment would purportedly do three things allegedly good for gun owners:
1. Criminalizes the creation of a “national firearms registry” by the Department of Justice.
Easily bypassed by 1) following the example of “Total Information Awareness” and calling it something else, since the name is criminalized, 2) DOJ passing the record to another department to create a registry (think handing it off to the CDC to “study patterns of gun violence”), 3) calling everything an investigation into a possible crime and collecting and correlating the records as allowed in this bill, 4) simply saving the automatically generated log files to create the registry later when Congress lifts the restriction, 5) ignoring the law as the ATF has been doing with impunity for years.
2. Reciprocal Transportation.
Except it doesn’t. It guts existing FOPA standards (which states have ignored anyway). And it has a nice built-in escape clause: transportation by licensed gun owners if the owner’s state of residence and the state he’s passing through recognize each other’s licenses; the bill does not require reciprocal recognition of licenses.
3. Out-of-state firearms purchases.
See #2; it only works if the states have — unmandated — license reciprocity.
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I somehow got on Toomey’s email list years ago. I may have emailed him over some “issue” once.
Every email I get from him is about “protecting the children” or some other statist drivel. Rarely do I read them (yet, even labeling them as “junk” hasn’t stopped them from coming to my inbox), but when I have, they are never about protecting anyone but the Rulers and their enforcer bullies. He’s a vermin.
And it has a nice built-in escape clause: transportation by licensed gun owners if the owner’s state of residence and the state he’s passing through recognize each other’s licenses
And if your state
actually “licenses”is stupid enough to “license” gun owners in the first place. Most states don’t. (I have a Texas CHL. It doesn’t show I’m a gun owner and certainly doesn’t list any of the guns I may or may not own.