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The NRA hates the government's jackbooted agents and loves to whip up its wild-eyed prepper population. Yet the NRA has quietly enacted a lot of regulations of its own which it relies on the same government jackbooted agents to enforce. Who can say hypocrite?
+ The NRA has embargoed government agencies from analyzing
gun data. The true toll of gun violence on society is an unknown--and the NRA
likes it that way. "None of the funds made available for injury prevention
and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to
advocate or promote gun control," says language added to the CDC
appropriations bill in 1996. (What
does gun control have to do with injury prevention?) Two years later, the
language was added for all HHS agencies including for the NIH.
+ The gun lobby's Tiahrt Amendment restricts law enforcement
officials from fully accessing and using Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms,
and Explosives (ATF) gun trace data. Clerks at the ATF literally write records by
hand, circa 1950, because the gun lobby
says an automated database would "pose a threat to the Second
Amendment." Let's get those bad guys.
Good Guys Until They Weren't by Martha Rosenberg
+ The NRA has blocked technology to produce "smart
guns" that only operate in their owners' possession, like smart cars. It
similarly blocks initiatives for microstamping, a technique which would require
handguns to leave a tiny identifying imprint on the casing of every round
fired. It will no doubt block GPS Devices on firearms, if it hasn't already
done so. Let's get those bad guys.
+ The NRA actually got a program passed to help people whose
gun purchasing rights were revoked petition for them to be restored . "Felons Finding It Easy to Regain Gun
Rights," said a chilling New York Times report in November of 2011. Why
should someone's Second Amendment be abridged just because they're a violent
criminal?
+ Even though the NRA got laws passed that make it legal for
employees to bring their guns to work and leave them in the company parking
lot, that is not enough. Now the rapacious NRA has made it illegal in some
states for employers to even ask if the
employee brought a gun to work! Even if a dispute is brewing. Let's hear it for
workplace shootings.
+ In similar micro-managing behavioral legislation, the NRA
is trying to make it illegal for doctors to ask patients if they have guns in
the home. It's none of their business, says the NRA though it will probably
permit doctors to stitch together victims of home accidents from the guns they
can't ask about.
+ Thanks to NRA lobbying, gun manufacturers cannot be sued. Unlike Big Tobacco or Big Pharma, the 2005
Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act gives gun makers, gun dealers and
trade groups immunity from negligence and product liability lawsuits! Did the
lobbyists see Virginia Tech, Tucson, Aurora and Newtown coming? END
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