Why is NSSF Trying to Expand
List of "Prohibited Persons"?
By Kurt Hofmann, August 5th 2015
JPFO writer contributor, © 2015.
In
the wake of high-profile mass shootings in South Carolina, Tennessee,
and Louisiana, some of the calls for more "gun control" are coming from a
perhaps surprising direction. The National Shooting Sports Foundation
(NSSF), the firearm industry's trade association, is calling for
revisions to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System
(NICS) that would deny more people the most effective means of
defending life and liberty. What's more, they are proudly boasting of
having done so in the past, and lamenting the fact that "gun control"
groups won't give them any credit for their own "gun control" efforts.
Larry Keane
For
the national background check system to work, all applicable records
based on current law have to be entered into it at the state level.
After all, any system is only as good as the accuracy and completeness
of its database. This is where we all can agree that the system needs
improvement.
Um, no--we cannot "all agree that the system needs" that kind of "improvement." We cannot "all agree" that in a country in which "the experts" claim that twenty percent of the population is mentally ill, that the government should be given the names of the 60 million people who are to be forcibly disarmed.But NSSF hasn't been waiting for our agreement:
We
are in the third year of our industry's national effort to ensure that
the system has all the appropriate records put into it. We call the
initiative FixNICS
and we have been successful through our direct efforts to convince 16
state legislatures to pass legislation to ensure that there are no
statutory, regulatory, administrative or procedural impediments to
entering all appropriate records - criminal and mental health - into
NICS.
The
intent, presumably, is to voluntarily give up some ground, in hopes
that the gun ban zealots will be satisfied with that, and not seek more.
How can anyone think that's an effective strategy? When has the forcible citizen disarmament lobby ever
been satisfied that they have taken enough? Every inch of ground we
surrender is an inch that they will not have to fight for--and an inch
closer to total disarmament of the citizenry.No. Again borrowing from Mr. Churchill, " . . . we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender . . .." Anything less is voluntarily aiding and abetting citizen disarmament.
The only way to "fix" NICS is to do away with it, consign it to the scrap heap of the more sordid parts of our history. As David Codrea has long argued, "Anyone who can't be trusted with a gun can't be trusted without a custodian." Maybe NSSF ought to redirect its efforts in the direction of recruiting a lot of custodians.
A
former paratrooper, Kurt Hofmann was paralyzed in a car accident in
2002. The helplessness inherent to confinement to a wheelchair prompted
him to explore armed self-defense, only to discover that Illinois denies
that right, inspiring him to become active in gun rights advocacy. He
also writes the St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner column. Kurt Hofmann Archive.
4 comments:
Seems they won't be happy until we are all standing in line waiting to toss our firearms onto the bonfire. In which case they have sorely underestimated the tenacity of the America gun owner. Churchill had the right idea.
Illness. Interesting word because its so overused like most buzz words.
While some might think it's all about mental illness, people forget how easy things can change. So many things were once deemed a mental illness and now aren't. How soon before any sort of illness will prevent you from getting a firearm, license, whatever.
Obesity, well isn't that just a sugar addiction? Oh, addiction, that's an illness please add this person to the no buy-fly-try list. With medical records being electronic it won't be hard to add anyone to such lists. People use social media and tie their phone numbers to those accounts 'for security or password recovery' but that ties in what you type to your phone number and to you (easier than ever). Make a Facebook update that says 'I'm going crazy' and you get tagged.
There are so few organizations worth being a member of, or part of, because those running such organizations typically are all about being in power and staying in power. How is that the best interest of you, I and everyone else...? grrr.
The NSSF used to be one of the GOOD GUYS!
What happened?
gfa
Vicki, I agree on both points.
Max, you're right - TPTB are doing everything they can to make gun ownership a privilege which can be removed by faceless bureaucrats on a whim ... or for nothing at all.
Guffaw, I have no idea. But they've clearly sold out to the Progressive mindset, and - as such - I have no use for them.
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