A Good Gun Bill?
BY Herschel Smith
1 year, 10 months ago
I write in support of the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2023. I’m a gun owner and target shooter. My guns came from licensed firearms dealers after passing background checks. It’s essential that background checks are conducted and done before an individual acquires a firearm.
The proposed bill requires that all gun transfers go through a federal firearms dealer with exceptions for gifts or transfers between family members, sharing at a range or hunting. No rights are infringed with this legislation. The language of the bill specifically prohibits the creation of a registry.
Preservation of our rights requires common sense regulation. I urge my representatives in Congress to support the Background Checks Act of 2023 and ask everyone else to do the same.
Malcolm Smith, Charlotte
I suspect Malcolm is a liar and impostor. But then I suspect that about all such people who begin with “I’m a gun owner and I support [blah blah] gun control bill.”
If he’s not an impostor then he’s a tool and goober. Either way we’re not too concerned with Malcolm. This is yet another media attempt to press a narrative. How do I know? Because Malcolm’s letter is just that – a letter to the editor. He’s a nobody.
And yet, his brief letter to the editor at the Charlotte Observer hit the Google news feed, as if it’s important. After so many years of doing this I’ve learned a thing or two about how this all works. The legacy media presses a narrative, and if they need a stooge in Charlotte to make headlines about how good so-and-so is, they’ll fabricate him out of whole cloth, or if they don’t have to, they’ll elevate his opinion to the headlines like it’s a big deal. So what’s the big deal?
Congresscritters have reintroduced yet another universal background check bill, called the Bipartisan Background Checks Act. It has the support of Everytown, Giffords, and every other gun control group.
But no one actually believes that criminals are going to purchase guns via a Form 4473, and the only people this affects are peaceable law-abiding men who the FedGov want to monitor. That’s the whole point.
So this failed last year with the Democrats in control of the House. It will certainly fail again this year. No GOP House member wants to go on record right now backing a UBC bill.
The whole point of the post is to alert readers to the continuing efforts to infringe on your rights. The collectivists aren’t satisfied with the results of Bruen, and don’t care about any of that. They want your guns.
There are no good gun bills unless they undo gun control and abolish the ATF.
On February 13, 2023 at 7:20 am, Wes said:
Been a few years but I’ve seen nearly that exact verbiage before in letters submitted to local paper editors when there was a similar bill being discussed at the state level. They are submitted from outside the area, but get printed because often the paper is picking up some AP content, or it is one of those that has been bought out by the leftist Gannett cartel. The latter result is an immediate clicking of the heels and a left face in its editorial bent.
Bloomberg troll information op.
On February 13, 2023 at 8:05 am, Bill Sullivan said:
Easy to tell who and what he is. Look for the phrase “common sense”.
On February 13, 2023 at 11:32 am, J said:
BTW, He forgot to mention that he once hunted quail with Cheney.
On February 13, 2023 at 12:47 pm, realwesterner said:
Indeed, the only good gun bill would be the one to abolish the ATF.
On February 13, 2023 at 1:52 pm, scott s. said:
Nope, just a controller pushing the “common sense” idea. But the letter is a lie, as you can’t enforce “all gun transfers go through a federal firearms dealer” without a registry.
On February 13, 2023 at 4:34 pm, Ozark Redneck said:
“The language of the bill specifically prohibits the creation of a registry.” Really— since when? I have lost count on the above infractions.
On February 13, 2023 at 5:06 pm, TRX said:
> It’s essential that background checks are conducted and done before an individual acquires a firearm.
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Funny, that sounds like infringement to me.
The Founders said “shall not be infringed”, not “strip the rights of anyone we don’t like.”