{"id":4719,"date":"2011-02-28T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T18:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/02\/28\/common-sense-measures-depends-on-who\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:32","slug":"common-sense-measures-depends-on-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4719","title":{"rendered":"Common-sense Measures &#8211; Depends On Who You Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18078,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.bradycampaign.org\\\/media\\\/press\\\/view\\\/1359&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bradyunited.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The Brady Campaign put out a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bradycampaign.org\/media\/press\/view\/1359\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">press release today commemorating the 17th anniversary<\/a> of the effective date of the Brady Law. They claim almost 1.8 million supposed criminals, wife beaters, and mentally-ill persons were stopped by the Brady Law from purchasing firearms from FFL&#8217;s over this 17 year time period. <\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the 17th anniversay, Paul Helmke has released a list of 17 &#8220;common-sense&#8221; gun control measures that he would like to see passed. They all can be &#8220;easily and quickly can be put in place to reduce gun violence.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The List:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u2022Close the&#8221; Gun Show&#8221; Loophole: Extend Brady Background Checks to All Gun Purchases <br \/>\n\u2022Close the Terror Gap: Prohibit Gun Sales to Suspected Terrorists<br \/>\n\u2022Stop the Sale of Large Capacity Ammunition Magazines (aka Big Bullet-Blasting Boxes)<br \/>\n\u2022Restore Justice to Gun Violence Victims: Repeal the Gun Industry Legal Protection Act<br \/>\n\u2022Repeal Tiahrt Restrictions on Disclosure of Crime Gun Data <br \/>\n\u2022Require Licensing of Gun Owners and Registration of Gun Purchases<br \/>\n\u2022Strengthen ATF Authority to Regulate Gun Dealers and Crack Down on Corrupt Dealers<br \/>\n\u2022Require Gun Owners to Report Lost or Stolen Guns<br \/>\n\u2022Improve the National Violent Death Reporting System Date, and restore firearms research funding for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<br \/>\n\u2022Restrict Large-Volume Gun Sales<br \/>\n\u2022Require Licensed Dealers to Adopt Safeguards to Prevent Gun Thefts<br \/>\n\u2022Require Licensed Dealers to Perform Background Checks on Employees<br \/>\n\u2022Prohibit The Transfer of Gun Inventory Without Background Checks After a Dealer&#8217;s License Has Been Revoked<br \/>\n\u2022Prohibit Gun Possession by People Convicted of Violent Misdemeanors<br \/>\n\u2022Prohibit Gun Possession by Persons Convicted of Violent Acts as Juveniles<br \/>\n\u2022Repeal the 24-hour Brady Record Destruction Requirement<br \/>\n\u2022Support new technologies to help law enforcement more effectively trace crime guns and supporting development of safety features to childproof guns<\/i> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just reading through the list I learned new words. For example, I didn&#8217;t know that my standard capacity AR-15 magazines were actually Big Bullet-Blasting Boxes. Somehow I doubt the MidwayUSA catalog will have a category for Big Bullet-Blasting Boxes.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, I was somewhat surprised to learn that the Brady Campaign has taken upon itself to speak for NRA members. At least that is what the Brady Campaign claims:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Most Americans, law enforcement officials and a majority of NRA members agree with the Brady Campaign&#8217;s goal to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of criminals, domestic abusers, the dangerously mentally-ill and others who should not have them. None of these 17 recommendations would prevent or impede law-abiding citizens from owning firearms. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What the Brady Campaign forgot to report was how many battered spouses were killed by their abusers in the pre-NICS era of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act due to the five-day waiting period. I guess inconvenient details such as that don&#8217;t make for good PR.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brady Campaign put out a press release today commemorating the 17th anniversary of the effective date of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4048,48],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brady-act","tag-brady-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6335,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}