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The @NRA & #gun companies are not evil but they are part of the problem. And the amazing thing is: all the folks clamoring to #BoycottNRA don't even know how bad it really is!
5 things the #NRA & gun manufacturers have successfully lobbied to create...
The @NRA & #gun companies are not evil but they are part of the problem. And the amazing thing is: all the folks clamoring to #BoycottNRA don't even know how bad it really is!
5 things the #NRA & gun manufacturers have successfully lobbied to create...
1) Background chk system overseen by the ATF that is forbidden to digitize records & so must keep all records on paper
2) BG chk system that is enormously hobbled at ATF bec of extreme funding shortages so that it can't do its job well & so that the NRA can claim it doesn't work
2) BG chk system that is enormously hobbled at ATF bec of extreme funding shortages so that it can't do its job well & so that the NRA can claim it doesn't work
3) Passage of the #Dickey Amendment that forbids gov't research from reaching conclusions that might be construed as advocating for gun control, thus allowing the #NRA to say, "No studies show..." and leaving legislators with no data to back up laws that might work
4) Passage of #Tiahrt Admnt that forbids the #ATF from sharing trace data on crime guns with any entity other than the PD directly working on the crime. So, no criminologist, sociologists, health experts -- no one can get vital data to figure out the crime angle to the problem
5) Forbidding the Consumer Product Safety Comm. @USCPSC from having jurisdiction over guns, so that there is NO safety oversight for consumers and manuf. are free from all liability for their product.
This is a SYSTEMIC problem & will take a long time to fix.
#ENOUGH
This is a SYSTEMIC problem & will take a long time to fix.
#ENOUGH
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