Universal Background checks? Hell no.... people, don't fall for this

[yellowtail3]

People, don't fall for this.

Yesterday, S. 374, or the “Protecting Responsible Gun Sellers Act of 2013” as it has been inexplicably termed, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by ten votes to eight. If it were to become law, S. 374 would usher in what advocates refer to as a system of “universal background checks.” It would do a lot more, besides. As it stands in our ostensibly ghoulish status quo, a free American citizen may leave his guns with his unrelated roommate for more than seven days; he may lend a gun to a friend so that that friend is able to go shooting or hunting; he has more than 24 hours in which to report to the police if his guns are stolen; and he may even — shock, horror! — teach a friend to shoot on his own land. Most important, he may do all of these things without spending five years in prison in consequence. This, the Senate’s bill would change.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/342922/schumer-s-transfer-tyranny-charles-c-w-cooke

[Mikey]

Fortuneately it is just the judiciary committee recommending that and I believe it would have to become part of the re-enacted gun ban which even harry reid said would not gain enough support in either house to re-instate it.  I doubt this will gain much support.

[mardrobe]

The different bills do not need to be combined.  While the assault weapons ban is expected to be defeated, it isn't that clear on the background check.  They use high polls in favor for back ground checks on sales to support the Universal back ground check bills then add much more to the bills.  In Colorado it will be illegal to give a gun to an in-law or step child without a background check.  Here they completely ignored a large response from gun owners and voted almost entirely on party lines.  If it can happen in Colorado, it can happen anywhere.

[Sourdough]

It could be stuck on another bill as a rider, and squeak through.  As we know they don't reead bills before they vote for them.  The title is all they have to go on, and they vote accordingly.

[coyotejoe]

The so-called "universal background check" is more than bad enough without any riders. It seems pretty much a done deal here in Colorado. They also have set a fee of $10 for the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to conduct the checks which previously had been free of charge. So now let's say I stop at a local flee market or garage sale and I see a .22 rifle or a single barrel shotgun for 50 bucks and I think "I wouldn't mind having that and 50 seems fair enough". But under the new law there is also $10 for the CBI and the dealer who does the check is rightly entitled to the fee he charges for doing the paperwork, which typically may run $15-$40. Now that 50 dollar gun just became 75-100 dollars. But worse, both the seller and I have to drive 45 miles to the nearest dealer and arrive there during business hours and hope the dealer isn't too busy to do the check and that CBI isn't so busy that it will take more than a few hours, which it very well may take several days. But it's Saturday, that's when garage sales and flea markets happen. So the seller would have to close up to go to the FFL which is of course closed on Sunday. Well I think you see that for all practical purposes we just cannot make a legal transaction, either it becomes impossible for private parties to exchange guns or we do it illegally and risk becoming felons.