Clinton offers "compromise" on gun issue

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Story at http://www.foxnews.com/national/0421/d_ap_0421_133.sml

An excerpt of the important part:

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Clinton offered a compromise Friday on background checks for gun purchases, a move he called "a gesture of good faith" designed to revive negotiations with Congress on his stalled gun safety legislation.

In a letter to House Judiciary Chairman Henry Hyde, R-Ill., Clinton proposed retaining records from background checks for 90 days, rather than the current 180 days.

"As a gesture of good faith, I am willing to meet you halfway on this important issue,'' Clinton said. I hope this step will help break the current logjam, and bring your colleagues back to the conference table."

Hyde, away from Congress for the Easter holiday recess, was not immediately available for comment. However, the National Rifle Association said Clinton's proposal was unacceptable.

"The law specifically states that the records are to be destroyed," said NRA spokesman Bill Powers. "Once a lawful citizen has been cleared through this check, it should not be the federal government's business to be keeping files."
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"There's not much comfort in the fact that crime is down 6 percent. So instead of 100 criminals targeting you, now there are only 94. Whoop-dee-doo." -- Paxton Quigley
 
Anybody here who actually believes those records are destroyed after 180 days, raise your hand.
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This "new" offer to destroy records (that we all know will not be destroyed) after 90 days is just more clinton BS.
These records were never meant to be maintained in the first place. By keeping them, the clinton mafia has violated the law. Whether they keep them for 180 days or 90 days or 1 day makes no difference. They do so illegally.
 
My understanding is that:

1. The fed's continue to retain NICS records for an indeterminate time, right now, and have been engaged in litigation with the NRA over this policy. As I recall, the fed's insist they need to do this, in spite of the law, for 'audit' purposes.

2. 4473's are retained by each FFL until the FFL goes out of business, at which time the 4473's are delivered to the BATF. And, I understand the BATF often visit dealers to record data off the 4473's. [For lurkers, or others unfamiliar with a form 4473, it is a federal form used by all Federal Firearms Licensees (i.e. legal dealers in firearms) to record data for ALL retail firearms sales. The form includes a number of questions asked of the buyer, such as criminal record, mental health, citizenship, name, address, social security number, etc. NOTE, these forms are also completed for sales by FFL's at gun shows.]

So, if my understaning is correct, Clinton is giving nothing up because his agents don't obey existing laws anyway, right?

Regards from AZ
 
Yes, Jeff, Clinton is giving nothing here. He is trying to intimidate Hyde by making him seem an "unreasonable Republican".
 
Compromise my heinney! We've already compromised ourselves into a swamp full of hungry alligators.

NO COMPROMISES, PERIOD!!

The NFA of '34 was a compromise, based upon a bed of lies.
The NFA of '68 was a compromise based upon a bed of lies.
As was the Gun Act of '89 was it? It too was based upon a bed of lies, and a sellout.

The only way to get the message through to our dear Socialistic friends and neighbors, is to vote, with a vengeance. And never give an inch.

Excuse me for the ill temper today, many things nipping at my heels lately. And they've all shown up today...

Best Regards,
Don

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The most foolish mistake we could make would be to allow the subjected people to carry arms; history shows that all conquerers who have allowed their subjected people to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
Adolf Hitler
 
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