Message: 1 Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2003 17:07:49 -0500 From: "J. N. Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Wash. Post: Brady Law procedure To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Here's a story about an incremental change in the operation of the Brady Law. JNH
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4958-2003Nov21.html FBI Gets More Time on Gun Buys
By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 22, 2003; Page A05
. . .
Under the new rules, the FBI will have as long as three days to run
additional checks on prospective gun purchasers listed on the Violent Gang and Terrorist Organizations File, a database of more than 10,000 names that includes al Qaeda operatives and other militants, according to a memo this week from acting Deputy Attorney General Robert McCallum Jr. . . .
Don't they already have 3 days, to be used if the "instant" check turns up something needing additional investigation? Wonder how many of the 10,000 are AlQaida and how many, how many members of the Bloods or Crip, or Hells Angels, or whatever the various stripes of Latino gangs are calling themselves these days, and how many just loud mouthed second amendment activists?
Seems to me the real question is why were they NOT using the 3 days for the Al Qaida or suspected Al Qaida, that the law , much as I don't like it, allows?
Most likely explanation is "peacetime mentality". The same sort of thing that got us in trouble at Pearl Harbor. Just as now, there was "something brewing" or happening, but certain key players had not yet adapted to the new reality.
If the Brady check doesn't stop people listed on the Violent Gang and Terrorist Organizations File, who does it stop, and what good is it?
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